puck

(puk)

noun

Ice Hockey the hard rubber disk which the players try to drive into the opponents' goal with their sticks

Origin: < dial. puck, to strike, akin to poke

noun

a mischievous sprite or elf
Robin Goodfellow: Puck appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Origin: ME puke < OE puca, akin to ON puki, devil < IE base *beu-, to blow up, swell > pout, poke

See puck in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A hard rubber disk used in ice hockey.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from dialectal puck, to strike

noun

Origin:

Origin: Middle English pouke, goblin

Origin: , from Old English pūca

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