English

Proper noun

Puck

1. (mythology) a mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
2. (astronomy) One of the satellites of the planet Uranus

Translations

German

Etymology

Borrowing from English puck.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊk

Noun

Puck m ‎(genitive Pucks, plural Pucks)

1. (ice hockey) puck

English

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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Hockey puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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.

Synonyms

• See goblin (hostile) and fairy (mischievous)

Derived terms

• puckish

Swedish

Noun

puck c

1. puck

Declension