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Puck   /pək/   Listen
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Puck  n.  
1.
(Mediaeval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. "He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall."
2.
(Zool.) The goatsucker. (Prov. Eng.)


Puck  n.  A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.





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"Puck" Quotes from Famous Books



... that England looked almost uninhabited. Well, it appears no more populous now, luckily for the picture. I heard Ellaline saying to Dick Burden that the towns and villages might be playing at hide and seek, they concealed themselves so successfully. Also I heard her advise him to read "Puck of Pook's Hill," and was somewhat disappointed that she'd already had it, as I bought it for her in Southsea yesterday. Probably she won't care to read it again. Perhaps I had better give the book to Mrs. ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... you thinking of? You have given the bottle to Puck. Take it away from him, quick. Lord help us all if that Imp has the bottle. Lord save us from ...
— The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome
... ringin'; But of all de whistlin' da'kies dat have lived an' died since Ham, De whistlin'est I evah seed was ol' Ike Bates's Sam. In de kitchen er de stable, in de fiel' er mowin' hay, You could hyeah dat boy a-whistlin' pu'ty nigh a mile erway,— Puck'rin' up his ugly features 'twell you could n't see his eyes, Den you 'd hyeah a soun' lak dis un f'om dat awful ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... and pranksome elf Flash vaguely past at every turn, Or, weird and wee, sits Puck himself, With legs akimbo, ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... usual, was crouched on the lowest step, with one leg over the other, and rubbing the top of his boot with a vigor which betrayed to me some secret mirth. He looked up at me from under his straw hat with the grin of a malicious Puck, glanced toward the group, and made a curious gesture with his thumb. There were several empty pint bottles ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various


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