'Puck' definitions:
Definition of 'Puck'
(from WordNet)
noun
A mischievous sprite of English folklore [syn: Puck, Robin Goodfellow]
noun
A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey [syn: puck, hockey puck]
Definition of 'Puck'
From: GCIDE
- Puck \Puck\, n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Puck'
From: GCIDE
- Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.]
- 1. (Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Puck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
Synonyms of 'puck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad boy,
- bad fairy,
- bad peri,
- booger,
- brat,
- buffoon,
- bugger,
- cutup,
- devil,
- deviling,
- devilkin,
- diablotin,
- Dingbelle,
- elf,
- enfant terrible,
- erlking,
- Fifinella,
- funmaker,
- gamin,
- gremlin,
- Hob,
- Hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- imp,
- JD,
- joker,
- jokester,
- juvenile delinquent,
- knave,
- kobold,
- little devil,
- little monkey,
- little rascal,
- minx,
- mischief,
- mischief-maker,
- pixie,
- poltergeist,
- practical joker,
- prankster,
- Puck,
- punk,
- punk kid,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- rogue,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- scamp,
- scapegrace,
- spoiled brat,
- sprite,
- tokoloshe,
- urchin,
- wag,
- whippersnapper,
- young devil