Definitions for pucks

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pucks puck

Spelling: [puhk]

IPA: /pʌk/

Pucks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in pucks (ckpsu).

Definitions for pucks

noun

1. Ice Hockey. a black disk of vulcanized rubber that is to be hit into the goal.
2. British Computers. mouse (def 4).
3. Also called Hobgoblin, Robin Goodfellow. a particularly mischievous sprite in English folklore who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
4. (lowercase) a malicious or mischievous demon or spirit; a goblin.

Origin of pucks

First recorded in 1890-95; alteration of poke¹

Examples for pucks

Glackens was a prolific cartoonist in Philadelphia and his comics are one of the most surprising elements in the puck book.

puck artists, like their predecessors, combined picture-making skills with a caricatural precision and a knack for lethal symbols.

On some issues, puck was so mired in its own times that the commentary is redundant.

Now it was puck who led the fairies as the great peacemaker.

The talk now turned on puck, who was to be the president of the meeting.

Her twin in mischief is puck, and she, too, is fond of paying visits to the bungalow.

Thinking that this was intended to be a polite question, puck looked up.

For three decades, ‘puck’ waged war on all things holy—politicians, social mores, and the news.

Usually, though, old-fashioned Liberalism is very much at the fore in puck.

puck would laugh if you should say that a telephone was any new thing to him.