puck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 pŭk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mischievous or hostile spirit. archaic
    — 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.
  2. A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
    — In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.
  3. billy goat Ireland
  4. A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.
    — The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.
  5. The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
  6. An object shaped like a puck. Canada
    — 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.
  7. A pointing device with a crosshair.
  8. A penalty shot.
动词 v.
  1. To hit, strike. Ireland

词形变化

pucks plural pucks present,singular,third-person pucking participle,present pucked participle,past pucked past pucks plural pucks plural pucks plural

词汇关系

近义词
goblin and fairy
衍生词
puckish hockey puck ice hockey puck puck bunny puck carrier puck chaser puck chasing puck crown puck-dribbling puck-handler puckhandler puck-handling puckle pucklike puck palace puck-pusher puck sense puck-shy puckster puckstopper puckstopping rag the puck shuffleboard puck shufflepuck side puck urinal puck where the puck is heading where the puck is going

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke). Doublet of pooka.
词源 2
From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
词源 3
From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”). Doublet of buck.
词源 4
Blend of pike + tuck.
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