puck

See also: Puck

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pŭk, IPA(key): /pʌk/
  • Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

Attested since 1886. From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

  1. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
    • 1886, Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
      In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.
  2. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
    • 2004, Art Directors Annual, v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
      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.
  3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
  4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English puke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke), Middle Low German spōk, spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

  1. A mischievous or hostile spirit.
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Swedish

Noun

puck c

  1. puck

Declension

Declension of puck 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative puck pucken puckar puckarna
Genitive pucks puckens puckars puckarnas
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