Puck

English

Noun

Puck (plural Pucks)

1. A hard hard rubber disc used in ice hockey; 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.

Derived terms

Terms derived from puck

hockey puck puck bunny puck carrier puck chaser puck chasing

puck crown puck-dribbling puck-handler puck-handling puck palace

puck-pusher puck sense puck-shy puckster rag the puck

Noun

Puck (plural Pucks)

1. A mischievous spirit.

Derived terms

• puckish

Thesaurus 1

Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, bad fairy, bad peri, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, elf, erlking, gremlin, imp, kobold, little devil, pixie, poltergeist, puck, sprite, tokoloshe, young devil

Thesaurus 2

Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, JD, Puck, bad boy, bad fairy, bad peri, booger, brat, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, elf, enfant terrible, erlking, funmaker, gamin, gremlin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, kobold, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, pixie, poltergeist, practical joker, prankster, punk, punk kid, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, spoiled brat, sprite, tokoloshe, urchin, wag, whippersnapper, young devil

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭk, IPA: /pʌk/, SAMPA: /pVk/

  Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

1886, from verb puck (“to hit or strike something”). Compare poke (1861), Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”)

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 pūki (dialectal Swedish puke, “devil”), Middle Low German spōk, spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.

Translations

Noun

disk used in hockey

Arabic: قرص لعبة الهوكي (ar) (qurS lú3bat al-huuki) m., قرص (ar) (qurS) m. (disk) Chinese: Mandarin: 冰球 (cmn) (bīngqiú) Crimean Tatar: şayba Czech: puk m., kotouč m., hrací kotouč m., touš m. Dutch: puck (nl) m. Finnish: kiekko, lätkä (slang) French: palet (fr) m., galet (fr) m., rondelle (fr) f. German: Eishockeyscheibe (de) f., Scheibe (de) f. Greek: σφαίρα (el) (sphaíra) f.

Hungarian: korong (hu), jégkorong (hu) Italian: disco di gomma m. Japanese: パック (ja) (pakku) Korean: 퍽 (ko) (peok), 장난 좋아하는 요정 (ko) (jangnan joh-ahaneun yojeong) Macedonian: пак (mk) (pak) m. Portuguese: disco de hóquei m. Russian: шайба (ru) (šáiba) f. Serbian: pločica f. Spanish: disco de goma (es) m., disco (es) m. Swedish: puck (sv) c.

See also

• 15px Hockey_puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Hockey_puck

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Swedish

Noun

Declension of Puck

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Puck	Pucken	Puckar	Puckarna
genitive	Pucks	Puckens	Puckars	Puckarnas

puck c.

1. puck