Puck

Meaning

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

Synonyms

Robin Goodfellow

Translations

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pouke

Inherited from Old English: pūca

Cognate with Icelandic: púki

Cognate with Swedish: puke

Cognate with Middle Low German: spūk

Cognate with German: Spuk

In summary

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.