Crossword clues for puck
puck
- Ice hockey disk
- Chef Wolfgang
- What a hockey player tries to shoot into the goal
- The Jets and the Sharks may fight over one
- Shakespeare's "merry wanderer of the night"
- Senators' disk
- Rag the ____
- Predators' target
- It's stopped during a save
- It's slapped on ice
- It's slapped in hockey
- It gets slapped and shot
- Hockey prop
- Hockey missile
- Disk slapped by Ducks
- Devils' disk
- Anaheim Ducks' disk
- Oberon's imp
- It gets slapped around a lot
- Hockey disk
- One reaching a goal?
- Trickster in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- A mischievous sprite of English folklore
- A vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey
- Disk for Gretzky
- Robin Goodfellow
- Prankish person
- Hockey need
- Mischievous fellow to choose one out for you
- Robin needs bravery when second flees
- Ice hockey disc
- Shakespearean sprite
- Target of icing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puck \Puck\, n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.
Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.]
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(Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, ``the merry wanderer of the night;'' -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.
--Shak.He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall.
--Drayton. (Zo["o]l.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mischievous fairy" (in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"), probably from pouke "devil, evil spirit" (c.1300), from Old English puca, pucel "goblin," cognate with Old Norse puki "devil, fiend," of unknown origin (compare pug). Celtic origins also have been proposed. Capitalized since 16c. His disguised name was Robin Goodfellow.
"ice hockey disk," 1891, possibly from puck (v.) "to hit, strike" (1861), which perhaps is related to poke (v.) via notion of "push." Another suggestion traces the noun to Irish poc "bag."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context ice hockey English) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. 2 (context chiefly Canada English) An object shaped like a puck. 3 (context computing English) A pointing device with a crosshair. Etymology 2
n. A mischievous spirit.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Puck may refer to:
Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the ancient figure of Puck found in English mythology.
Puck is a clever, mischievous elf, sprite or jester that personifies the wise knave. In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the "shrewd and knavish sprite" and "that merry wanderer of the night"; he is a jester to Oberon, the fairy king. Puck and Bottom are the only two characters who interact and progress the three central stories in the whole play; Puck is the one who is first introduced in the fairies' story and creates the drama of the lovers' story by breaking up a young couple lost in an enchanted forest, as well as by placing the ass on Bottom's head. Similarly, Bottom is performing in a play intending it to be presented in the lovers' story, as well as interacting with Titania in the fairies' story.
Puck is an inner moon of Uranus. It was discovered in December 1985 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The name Puck follows the convention of naming Uranus's moons after characters from Shakespeare. The orbit of Puck lies between the rings of Uranus and the first of Uranus's large moons, Miranda. Puck is approximately spherical in shape and has diameter of about 162 km. It has a dark, heavily cratered surface, which shows spectral signs of water ice.
Puck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. A collection of Puck cartoons dating from 1879 to 1903 is maintained by the Special Collections Research Center of The George Washington University.
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Puck is the codename of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The two characters are a father and daughter pair, who are both members of Alpha Flight, in the universe.
Puck: The Unofficial Journal of the Irrepressible was published by San Francisco-based Permeable Press in the early and mid-1990s.
Puck is an opéra-féerique in three acts with music by Marcel Delannoy, premiered in 1949. The French libretto was adapted by André Boll from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Noah "Puck" Puckerman is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actor Mark Salling, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Puck was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. He is Finn's best friend and football teammate, who initially disapproves of Finn joining the New Directions glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, where the show is set, but he eventually joins it himself. In 2010, Salling was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Breakout Star Male for his work as Puck, and in 2011 for the Choice TV: Scene Stealer Male category.
Usage examples of "puck".
At intervals the woods resounded with the crash of falling branches, and at every one of those sounds the jungli would leap almost out of his skin, springing, like Puck, from side to side of the fire-lane.
Malvern popped the datastorage and slipped the honey-colored hockey puck into his capacious scabbing vest.
Puck if he was not the knavish spirit that frightened the maidens of the villagery, that skimmed milk, and sometimes laboured in the green, and bootless made the housewife churn, and sometimes made the drink to bear no barm, and whether Puck did not mislead night wanderers, and then laugh at their harm, and do the work of hobgoblins?
He pulled the puck loose and passed it back to the right defenseman, the hardest and most accurate shooter on the team.
Dessert was an overbaked chocolate chip cookie the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.
The snowshoes were thick pucks of sandwiched superinsulator and the borrowed suit was a collection of bulky spheres that made him resemble a snowman with strings of beads for arms and legs.
Mistaking Lysander for Demetrius, Puck anoints the eyes of Lysander, who awakes and declares his love for Helena.
His terrible book was calledNot in My Net,and his humor was principally demonstrated by his charmless habit of referring to the women he’d slept with aspucks,thus enabling him to crack the joke “She was a great puck.
He and Logie, Puck and Atwood had been ordered to present themselves at the office block in Broadway, near St James's tube station, from which Bletchley Park was run.
He tripped and created so much confusion that Larry Wilson was able to pop the puck over the York goaltender with a backhand shot.
He dodged down a driveway and jumped a Cyclone fence into a yard inhabited by two cats, which began shooting around like fur-covered hockey pucks, their tails fat with terror, their eyes blazing.
They would be born so, costarred, puck and prig, the maryboy at Donnybrook Fair, the godolphinglad in the Hoy's Court.
The U-boat that had been sent to pick up Puck had been intercepted and sunk off the coast of Donegal, which was a double bonus, as the Germans probably now thought that the whole business had been a set-up all along, designed to trap one of their submarines.
The field of play was a barbed-wire-and-carnage-strewn no-one's-land between the two armies' trenches, with the trenches serving as goal-lines -- first player to put the puck past the others' goal-line .
All faces were now turned toward this puck, Danlo's and his hallmates', and, behind their own goal line, the tense faces of the Stone Row novices at the field's upper end.