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Puck   /pək/   Listen
noun
Puck  n.  
1.
(Mediaeval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. "He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall."
2.
(Zool.) The goatsucker. (Prov. Eng.)


Puck  n.  A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.





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"Puck" Quotes from Famous Books



... have come to him. The Nobel Prize of Literature and an honorary degree from Oxford were both awarded him in 1907. He has taken some part in politics, but he continues to write, though not so prolifically as before. His more recent books are: "Kim" (1902), a vivid panorama of India; "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906), and "Rewards and Fairies" (1910), realistic reconstructions of English history; "Actions and Reactions" (1909), a series of stories, among them "An Habitation Enforced," a rare story of the charm of English country life; and "The Fringes of ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson
... course they would come first, but, oh, I would do such a lot of things! I'd find out where money was most needed and drop it on the people anonymously so that they wouldn't be bothered about thanking anyone. I would creep about like a beneficent Puck and take worried frowns away, and straighten out things for tired people, and, above all, I'd make children smile. There's no fun or satisfaction got from giving big sums to hospitals and things—that's all right for when you're dead. I want to make happiness ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... nor Junius ever dealt in more furious words than Macaulay, who had not the excuse of controversy or passion. Frederick William of Prussia was "the most execrable of fiends, a cross between Moloch and Puck"; "his palace was hell"; compared with the Prince, afterwards Frederick the Great, "Oliver Twist in the workhouse, and Smike at Dotheboys Hall were petted children." It would be difficult for Mark Twain to beat that. "The follies and vices of King John were the salvation of ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison
... "Puck" was the little dog's name, and he appeared in a fair way of "putting a girdle round the earth," if not in forty minutes like his elfish namesake, at least in an appreciable limited space of time, Teddy never being content except he carried about the unfortunate brute with him everywhere he went, ...
— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson
... that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work] To those traditionary opinions ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson


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