Dictionary

Puck en · PROPN

Etymology

From puck (“mischievous spirit”), from Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Icelandic púki, dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”), Middle Low German spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.

Meanings

1. A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
2. One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.

Deriveds

puckish · Puckian · Pucklike

Synonyms

puck · Robin Goodfellow

Translations (5)

ja パック (moon of Uranus) · pl Puk (mythology) · ru Пак (mythology) · pl Puk (moon of Uranus) · ru Пак (moon of Uranus)