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puck
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)
- (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.
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 232:
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)
- (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike. [from 19th c.]
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (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.
- 1886, Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 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.
- 2004, Art Directors Annual, v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
- (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair. [from 20th c.]
- (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)
- (Ireland, rural) billy goat
Etymology 4
Blend of pike +? tuck
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (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
- puck
Declension
Further reading
- puck in Svensk ordbok.
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fairy
English
Alternative forms
- faery
- faerie
- færie (archaic, nonstandard)
- fairie
Etymology
From Middle English fairye, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae + -erie, from Vulgar Latin *F?ta (“goddess of fate”), from Latin f?tum (“fate”). Equivalent to Fate +? -ery.
English from ca. 1300, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" and later "realm of the fays, fairy-land" or "the inhabitants of fairyland as a collective".The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but becomes common only in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????i/
- (General American) enPR: fâr??
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?f????i/
- (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?f??i/
- Rhymes: -???i
- Homophone: ferry (in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)
Noun
fairy (countable and uncountable, plural fairies)
- (uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
- A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism.
- An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm.
- (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
- 1933, Nathanael West, 'Miss Lonelyhearts' [Miss Lonelyhearts is male.]
- The cripple returned the smile and stuck out his hand. Miss Lonelyhearts clasped it, and they stood this way, smiling and holding hands, until Mrs. Doyle reëntered the room.
"What a sweet pair of fairies you guys are," she said.
The cripple pulled his hand away and made as though to strike his wife.
- The cripple returned the smile and stuck out his hand. Miss Lonelyhearts clasped it, and they stood this way, smiling and holding hands, until Mrs. Doyle reëntered the room.
- 1933, Nathanael West, 'Miss Lonelyhearts' [Miss Lonelyhearts is male.]
- A member of two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.
Synonyms
- (supernatural creature): fay, fey, fae, sprite; see also goblin (hostile)
- (male homosexual): fag (US), faggot (US), poof (UK), queen
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
fairy
- Like a fairy; fanciful, whimsical, delicate.
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