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PUCK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Puck mean?
• PUCK (noun)
The noun PUCK has 2 senses:
1. a mischievous sprite of English folklore
2. a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey
Familiarity information: PUCK used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mischievous sprite of English folklore
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Puck; Robin Goodfellow
Hypernyms ("Puck" is a kind of...):
faerie; faery; fairy; fay; sprite (a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
hockey puck; puck
Hypernyms ("puck" is a kind of...):
Context examples
S3 was cloned in 1955 by T.T. Puck, P.I. Marcus, and S.J. Cieciura.
(HeLa S3, NCI Thesaurus)
Don't you remember the day you played Rarey with Puck, and we all looked on?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Will you take me out in the trotting wagon with Puck?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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