different between phuck vs puck

English

Pronunciation

Verb

phuck (third-person singular simple present phucks, present participle phucking, simple past and past participle phucked)

1. (slang) Nonstandard spelling of fuck.
   • 2003, Edward Abbey, David Petersen, Confessions of a barbarian (page 181)

     So now it's four days later and the problem, precisely phrased, is how to get the phucking leg up off the phucking bed. Sweating and cursing, try as I will, I cannot lift that phucking limb.

   • 2008, Steve Gertsch, A Templar's Vows

     “My Lord, you really phucked him up,” said Winola. “I have never seen anything like that before.”

   • 2010, D. B. Moon, Mind Sweeper (page 124)

     He breathed in again and gritted what teeth he had left. When he exhaled, saliva and blood poured out of his mouth, as well as another blood bubble. “Phuck you Natshi!”

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?k, IPA^(key): /p?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English puke, from Old English p?ca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *p?kô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)p?ug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke), Middle Low German sp?k, sp?k (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit. [from 10th c.]
   • 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 232:

     William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.

Synonyms

• See goblin (hostile) and fairy (mischievous)

Derived terms

• puckish

Etymology 2

From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).

Verb

puck (third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked)

1. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike. [from 19th c.]

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. [from 19th c.]
   • 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. [from 20th c.]
   • 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. [from 20th c.]
4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: puck
• ? German: Puck
• ? Swedish: puck

Translations

See also

• Hockey puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”).

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (Ireland, rural) billy goat

Etymology 4

Blend of pike +? tuck

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

Swedish

Etymology

From English puck.

Noun

puck c

1. puck

Declension

Further reading

• puck in Svensk ordbok.