puck
/pʌk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
noun
A pointing device with a crosshair.
noun
A penalty shot.
noun
Example Sentences
- "William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period."
- "In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used."
- "The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol."
- "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."
- "The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
hockey puck
ice hockey puck
puck bunny
puck carrier
puck chaser
puck chasing
puck crown
puck-dribbling