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- [puhk]
- /pʌk/
- /pʌk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [puhk]
- /pʌk/
Definitions of puck word
- noun puck Also called Hobgoblin, Robin Goodfellow. a particularly mischievous sprite in English folklore who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. 1
- noun puck (lowercase) a malicious or mischievous demon or spirit; a goblin. 1
- noun puck ice hockey: disc 1
- countable noun puck In the game of ice hockey, the puck is the small rubber disc that is used instead of a ball. 0
- noun puck a small disc of hard rubber used in ice hockey 0
- noun puck a stroke at the ball in hurling 0
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Origin of puck
First appearance:
before 1890 One of the 20% newest English words
First recorded in 1890-95; alteration of poke1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Puck
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
puck popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
puck usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for puck
noun puck
- bogie — an assembly of four or six wheels forming a pivoted support at either end of a railway coach. It provides flexibility on curves
- deviling — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- devilkin — a small devil; a devil inferior to 'the' devil
- fairy — (in folklore) one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs.
- fay — a female given name, form of Faith.
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