puck
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Is puck a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of puck?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit.Examples: "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."archaic
2. (mythology, literature) The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".Synonyms: Robin Goodfellow, faerie, faery, fairy, fay, sprite
verb (English)
1. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike.Ireland
noun (English)
1. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.Examples: "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."
2. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.Examples: "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."Canada
3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
noun (English)
1. (Ireland, rustic) billy goatIreland
noun (English)
1. (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.Examples: "The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults."
name (English)
1. (mythology) A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.Synonyms: Robin Goodfellow, puck
2. (astronomy) One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.
Definition source: Wiktionary