Puck

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil
     demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. {Poker} a bugbear, {Pug}.]
     1. (Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry
        wanderer of the night;" -- called also {Robin Goodfellow},
        {Friar Rush}, {Pug}, etc. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]


  
              He meeteth Puck, whom most men call
              Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall.      --Drayton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puck \Puck\, n.
     A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as
     the object to be driven through the goals.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Puck
       n 1: a mischievous sprite of English folklore [syn: {Robin
            Goodfellow}]
       2: a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used
          instead of a ball in ice hockey [syn: {hockey puck}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "Puck":
     Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, bad fairy, bad peri,
     deviling, devilkin, diablotin, elf, erlking, gremlin, imp, kobold,
     little devil, pixie, poltergeist, puck, sprite, tokoloshe,
     young devil
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "puck":
     Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, JD, Puck, bad boy, bad fairy,
     bad peri, booger, brat, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, deviling,
     devilkin, diablotin, elf, enfant terrible, erlking, funmaker,
     gamin, gremlin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker,
     jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, kobold, little devil,
     little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, mischief-maker,
     pixie, poltergeist, practical joker, prankster, punk, punk kid,
     rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace,
     spoiled brat, sprite, tokoloshe, urchin, wag, whippersnapper,
     young devil