puck

Dictionary: puck (pŭk) pronunciation

n.
A hard rubber disk used in ice hockey.

[Perhaps from dialectal puck, to strike.]

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A mouse-like object used to draw on a digitizer tablet. A puck is more precise than a mouse. See digitizer tablet and mouse.

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puck (pŭk), in Germanic folklore, generic name for various malevolent spirits. The medieval English pouke was often identified with the devil. However, the Puck of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a mischievous but friendly fairy.

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Puck may refer to:

Puck (mythology), a nature spirit
Puck (sports), used instead of a ball in ice hockey and other sports
Puck (literary magazine), a late 20th century US periodical
Puck (magazine), a 19th century US periodical
Puck (computing), a pointing device used with a graphics tablet
Puck Fair, a yearly Irish festival in which a goat is crowned "King Puck"
Puck, an amount of tamped coffee within an espresso machine's portafilter

Places

Puck (moon), a moon of Uranus
Puck, Poland, a town in Poland
Puck Building, a block in Manhattan, New York City, USA
Bay of Puck, part of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea

People

Theodore Puck (1916-2005), American geneticist
Wolfgang Puck (born 1949), Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur
Axel Munthe (1857-1949), Swedish physician and author who used "Puck" as a pen-name
David "Puck" Rainey, cast member from MTV's reality television show, The Real World
Puck bunny, a female hockey groupie

Characters

Puck (Shakespeare), from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck (comics), a diminutive superhero in Marvel comics
Puck, the narrator of the book Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) by Rudyard Kipling
Puck, a trickster in the animated television show Gargoyles
Puck, a character in the Japanese anime/manga Berserk
Peter Puck, the name of a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character
Puck, a minor character appearing in Final Fantasy IX
Puck the talking dog, a character in Ouida's 1870 novel Puck
Puck (The Faerie Dragon), a hero in the video game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne's custom map, "Defense of the Ancients"
Puck, a main character in the novel series "The Sisters Grimm"
Mister Puck, Aelita's doll in Code Lyoko
Noah "Puck" Puckerman, a character in the television show "Glee"

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Translations: Puck

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - en slags input-udstyr

n. - nisse, puck

Nederlands (Dutch)
kwade geest, puck (ijshockey)

Français (French)
n. - (Comput) palet, palet (hockey sur glace)

n. - lutin

Deutsch (German)
n. - Puck

n. - Kobold

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καλικάντζαρος, ξωτικό, (αθλοπ.) δίσκος του χόκεϊ επί πάγου, κακομαθημένο παιδί (κν. διαολάκι), (Η/Υ) γραφίδα

Italiano (Italian)
disco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - duende (m), disco usado par jogar hóquei (m)

Русский (Russian)
злой дух, шайба

Español (Spanish)
n. - disco de goma de hockey sobre hielo

n. - duende, chotacabras

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (hockey)puck, naturväsen (nisse), inmatningsenhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
小淘气, 顽童, 小精灵

恶作剧的小妖精, 淘气的小孩

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 小淘氣, 頑童, 小精靈

n. - 惡作劇的小妖精, 淘氣的小孩

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 입력장치의 형식

n. - 선머슴

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - パック

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جهاز ادخال بيانات, قرص في لعبه هوكي الجليد, جني, شقي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קונדס, שד, כדור (דיסקית) בהוקי-קרח‬
n. - ‮רוח-שד מרושע במיוחד במעשיות עממיות אנגליות‬

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