Puck

Quick meaning: Puck is a noun meaning (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit.

Meaning

(now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit.

More Meanings

1. (mythology, literature) The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
2. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
5. (Ireland, rustic) billy goat
6. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike.
7. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.

Example Sentences

The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.

In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.

He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck.

William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.

Word Forms

• pucks
• pucking
• pucked

Synonyms for puck

Depending on context, synonyms include faerie, faery, fairy, fay, sprite.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tricksy, slice, wafer, washer, disc, range.

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