puck
PuckOrigin of puck
from dialect, dialectal puck, to strike, akin to poke- a mischievous sprite or elf
- [P-] Robin Goodfellow: Puck appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Origin of puck
Middle English puke from Old English puca, akin to Old Norse puki, devil from Indo-European base an unverified form beu-, to blow up, swell from source pout, pokepuck
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Origin of puck
Perhaps from dialectal puck to strikePuck
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Origin of Puck
Middle English pouke goblin from Old English pūca Sense 2, after the sprite in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespearepuck
(plural pucks)
Attested since 1886. From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag"). Compare poke (1861).
From Middle English puke, from Old English pÅ«ca (“goblin, demon"), from Proto-Germanic *pÅ«kô (“a goblin, spook"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pÄug(')- (“brilliance, spectre"). Cognate with Old Norse pÅ«ki (dialectal Swedish puke, “devil"), Middle Low German spÅk, spÅ«k (“apparition, ghost"), German Spuk (“a haunting"). More at spook.
- (mythology) a mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
- (astronomy) One of the satellites of the planet Uranus
From puck (“mischievous spirit"), from Middle English puke, from Old English pÅ«ca (“goblin, demon"), from Proto-Germanic *pÅ«kô (“a goblin, spook"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pÄug(')- (“brilliance, spectre"). Cognate with Old Norse pÅ«ki (dialectal Swedish puke, “devil"), Middle Low German spÅk, spÅ«k (“apparition, ghost"), German Spuk (“a haunting"). More at spook.
puck - Computer Definition
A mouse-like object used to draw on a digitizer tablet. A puck is more precise than a mouse. See digitizer tablet and mouse.
