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PUCK
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English
English : nickname for a man with some fancied resemblance to a he-goat (Old English bucc(a)) or a male deer (Old English bucc). Old English Bucc(a) is found as a personal name, as is Old Norse Bukkr. Names such as Walter le Buk (Somerset 1243) are clearly nicknames.English : topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree, such as Peter atte Buk (Suffolk 1327), from Middle English buk ‘beech’ (from Old English bÅc).German : from a personal name, a short form of Burckhard (see Burkhart).North German and Danish : nickname for a fat man, from Middle Low German bÅ«k ‘belly’. Compare Bauch.German : variant of Bock.German : variant of Puck in the sense ‘defiant’, ‘spiteful’, or ‘stubborn’.German : topographic name from a field name, Buck ‘hill’.Emanuel Buck came from England to Plymouth Colony in the 1640s and in 1647 settled in Wethersfield, CT.
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Shakespearean American
A Midsummer Night's Dream' Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, mischievous fairy.
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Shakespearean
A Midsummer Night's Dream' Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, mischievous fairy.
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North German
North German : habitational name from a place so named near Stettin.English : variant of Puck.
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Shakespearean
A Midsummer Night's Dream' Puck, or Robin Goodfellow, mischievous fairy.
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North German
North German : probably from a nickname for someone who was spiteful or stubborn, from Middle Low German puch ‘defiance’.German : from a short form of a medieval personal name such as Burkhart.Respelling of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Puk, a habitational name for someone from Puki, in Belarus.English : nickname from Middle English puck, pook ‘goblin’, ‘mischievous sprite’.
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English (Dorset)
English (Dorset) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Pocket(t), from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French poque ‘small pouch’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of purses and pouches or a nickname. Alternatively it could be from a diminutive of Middle English pouk(e) ‘evil spirit’, ‘puck’, ‘goblin’.
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v. t.
To pucker.
n.
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
n.
A puffball.
n.
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
v. t.
To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.
n.
One who, or that which, puckers.
n.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
v. t.
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
a.
Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pucker
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Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.
n.
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
v. t. & i.
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
v. t.
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
imp. & p. p.
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Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
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Puckered.
n.
An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
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Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.