Noun: puck
Sample Sentences
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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. [2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 232:]
Nouns inflected like puck
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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.
2. Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke). Doublet of pooka. See: Middle English Nouns '
pouke', Old English Nouns '
pūca', Old Norse Nouns '
púki'.
Verbs referencing "puck"
Swedish Nouns
puck, English Nouns
goblin, German Nouns
Puck, Romanian Nouns
puc, Irish Nouns
púca, Icelandic Nouns
púki.