Puck

Puck

Puck may refer to:
* Puck (mythology), a nature spirit

Characters

* Puck (Shakespeare), from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
* Puck, the narrator of the book "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906) by Rudyard Kipling
* Puck, a character in the Japanese anime/manga "Berserk"
* Puck (comics), a diminutive superhero in Marvel comics
* Puck, a trickster in the animated television show Gargoyles
* 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" who narrates and makes comments on British society.
* Puck (The Faerie Dragon), a hero in the video game "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne"'s custom map, "Defense of the Ancients"
* Puck, a character in the novel series "The Sisters Grimm"
* Puck, a British fairy bucca in "Simply Puck"

People

* Theodore Puck (1916-2005), American geneticist
* Wolfgang Puck (born 1949), an Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur
* Kirby Puckett
* Axel (Puck) Munthe, Swedish physician and author
* David "Puck" Rainey a cast member from MTV's reality television show, "The Real World"

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, a shallow western part of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea

Others

* [http://www.puckmusic.co.za Puck - (the band)] , South African based electronic band
* Puck (sports), the object used for scoring goals in ice hockey, roller hockey, underwater hockey, air hockey, carrom and novuss
* Sausage patty
* Puck (goat), a specially captured wild goat crowned "King Puck" at Puck Fair every year in Ireland
* "Puck" (magazine), a 19th century US periodical
* "Puck" (literary magazine), a late 20th century US periodical
* Puck, an amount of tamped coffee within an espresso machine's portafilter
* Puck (computing), a pointing device used with a Graphics tablet


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  • Puck — steht für eine Kunststoffscheibe beim Eishockey und anderen Sportarten, die ins gegnerische Tor befördert werden muss, siehe Puck (Sport) einen Mond des Uranus, siehe Puck (Mond) eine Hafenstadt in Polen, siehe Puck (Polen) eine veraltete… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Puck — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El término Puck hace referencia a: Puck: una de las lunas de Urano. Puck: ciudad de Polonia. Puck: disco de Hockey sobre hielo. Literatura: Puck a.k.a Robin: Personaje de El sueño de una noche de verano. Puck:… …   Wikipedia Español

  • puck — puck·ery; puck·fist; puck·ish; puck·ish·ness; puck·le; puck·ster; puck; puck·er; puck·ish·ly; …   English syllables

  • Puck — Sm Spielscheibe beim Eishockey per. Wortschatz fach. (20. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. puck, dessen Herkunft unklar ist.    Ebenso nndl. puck, ne. puck, nschw. puck, nnorw. puck. ✎ Carstensen 3 (1996), 1122f. englisch ? …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • puck — ● puck nom masculin (anglais puck) Synonyme de palet. ● puck (synonymes) nom masculin (anglais puck) Synonymes : palet …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Puck — Puck, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. {Poker} a bugbear, {Pug}.] 1. (Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, the merry wanderer of the night; called also {Robin Goodfellow}, {Friar Rush}, {Pug},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • puck — [pʌk] n ↑glove, ↑ice skate, ↑puck [Date: 1800 1900; : English dialect; Origin: puck to hit , from POKE1] a hard flat circular piece of rubber that you hit with the stick in the game of ↑ice hockey …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • puck — noun 1》 a black disc made of hard rubber, used in ice hockey. 2》 Computing an input device similar to a mouse. Origin C19: of unknown origin. puck a mischievous or evil sprite. → Puck …   English new terms dictionary

  • puck — puck1 [puk] n. [< dial. puck, to strike, akin to POKE1] Ice Hockey the hard rubber disk which the players try to drive into the opponents goal with their sticks puck2 [puk] n. [ME puke < OE puca, akin to ON puki, devil < IE base * beu ,… …   English World dictionary

  • Puck — Puck, n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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