Puck

Pronunciation

• enPR: pÅ­k, IPA: /pÊŒk/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒk

Attested since 1886. From or influenced by Irish poc ("stroke in hurling, bag"). Compare poke (1861).

re-add this when such a verb section exists! lol (says ):

"from verb puck ("to hit or strike something")".

Full definition of puck

Noun

1. (ice hockey) A hard hard rubber disc; 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

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.

Noun

1. A mischievous spirit.

Derived terms

• puckish