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Puck   /pək/   Listen
noun
Puck  n.  
1.
(Mediaeval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. "He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall."
2.
(Zool.) The goatsucker. (Prov. Eng.)


Puck  n.  A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.





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"Puck" Quotes from Famous Books



... With Puck's first joke, they did the last Life feed, And there of Judge's Stories sowed the Seed: And the first jokelet that Joe Miller wrote The ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess
... patriot, a solemn prophet, any more than we should demand of a gazelle that it should draw well in harness? Nature has not made him of her sterner stuff—not of iron and adamant, but of pollen of flowers, the juice of the grape, and Puck's mischievous brain, plenteously mixing also the dews of kindly affection and the gold-dust of noble thoughts. It is, after all, a tribute which his enemies pay him when they utter their bitterest dictum, namely, that he is ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... economics. Production exists solely for the sake of consumption, and must therefore—as ought long since to have been seen—depend, both in its amount and in the character of its means, upon the amount of consumption. And if some tricksy Puck were to carry off overnight to some European country all our wealth and all our machinery, without taking to that country our social institutions as well, it is as certain that that country would not be a farthing richer than ...
— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka
... ladies? Oh, Mother, you know Father would never consent to that. Neither would Uncle Tom nor Big Josh. She would hate it and then there's Uncle Billy and the horses—Cupid and Puck—to say nothing ...
— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson
... rogue has a kindness for me, in remembrance of certain apples and nuts, which my usual companion, who delights in his wit, is accustomed to dole out to him. But it is a Robin Goodfellow nevertheless, a perfect Puck, that loves nothing on earth so well as mischief. Perhaps the horse may be the ...
— Our Village • Mary Russell Mitford


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