Puck

Noun

 * 1) A hard hard rubber disc used in ice hockey; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  An object shaped like a puck.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  A pointing device with a crosshair.

Derived terms

 * hockey puck
 * puck bunny
 * puck carrier
 * puck chaser
 * puck chasing


 * puck crown
 * puck-dribbling
 * puck-handler
 * puck-handling
 * puck palace


 * puck-pusher
 * puck sense
 * puck-shy
 * puckster
 * rag the puck

Noun

 * 1) A mischievous spirit.

Derived terms

 * puckish

Thesaurus 1
Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, bad fairy, bad peri, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, elf, erlking, gremlin, imp, kobold, little devil, pixie, poltergeist, puck, sprite, tokoloshe, young devil

Thesaurus 2
Dingbelle, Fifinella, Hob, Hobgoblin, JD, Puck, bad boy, bad fairy, bad peri, booger, brat, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, deviling, devilkin, diablotin, elf, enfant terrible, erlking, funmaker, gamin, gremlin, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, juvenile delinquent, knave, kobold, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, pixie, poltergeist, practical joker, prankster, punk, punk kid, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, spoiled brat, sprite, tokoloshe, urchin, wag, whippersnapper, young devil

Etymology 1
1886, from verb puck:. Compare poke: (1861), Irish poc:

Etymology 2
From puke:, from  puca:, from, from. Cognate with púki:,  spok:, spuk:,  Spuk:. More at.

Noun

 * Arabic: قرص لعبة الهوكي,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 冰球
 * Crimean Tatar: şayba
 * Czech: puk, kotouč , hrací kotouč , touš
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kiekko, lätkä
 * French:, ,
 * German: Eishockeyscheibe,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: disco di gomma
 * Japanese: パック
 * Korean: 퍽, 장난 좋아하는 요정
 * Macedonian: пак
 * Portuguese: disco de hóquei
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: pločica
 * Spanish: disco de goma,
 * Swedish:

Noun
puck


 * 1) puck