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puck1 definition

puck (puk)

noun

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

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

puck2 definition

puck (puk)

noun

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

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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