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puck
(encz) | puck,puk n: Zdeněk Brož |
Puck
(gcide) | 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, etc. --Shak.
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He meeteth Puck, whom most men call
Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton.
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2. (Zool.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
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Puck
(gcide) | Puck \Puck\, n.
A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as
the object to be driven through the goals.
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puck
(wn) | Puck
n 1: a mischievous sprite of English folklore [syn: Puck,
Robin Goodfellow]
2: a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used
instead of a ball in ice hockey [syn: puck, hockey puck] |
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pucka
(mass) | pucka
- autentický |
hockey puck
(encz) | hockey puck,puk n: Zdeněk Brož |
icing the puck
(encz) | icing the puck, n: |
pucka
(encz) | pucka,autentický adj: Michal Ambrožpucka,pravý adj: Michal Ambrož |
pucker
(encz) | pucker,vráska n: Zdeněk Brožpucker,záhyb n: Zdeněk Brožpucker,zvrásnění n: Zdeněk Brožpucker,zvrásnit v: Zdeněk Brož |
puckerbush
(encz) | puckerbush, n: |
puckered
(encz) | puckered, adj: |
puckered-up
(encz) | puckered-up, adj: |
puckering
(encz) | puckering,svraštění n: Zdeněk Brož |
puckish
(encz) | puckish,čtverácký adj: Martin M.puckish,darebný adj: Martin M.puckish,šibalský adj: Martin M.puckish,šprýmový adj: Martin M.puckish,zlomyslný adj: Martin M. |
puckishly
(encz) | puckishly, |
puckishness
(encz) | puckishness, |
Puck
(gcide) | 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, etc. --Shak.
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He meeteth Puck, whom most men call
Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton.
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2. (Zool.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Puck \Puck\, n.
A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as
the object to be driven through the goals.
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Pucka
(gcide) | Pucka \Puck"a\, a. [Written also pukka.] [Hind. pakk[=a]
cooked, ripe, solid.]
Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial,
real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of
brick and mortar. [India]
It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. --Kipling.
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Puckball
(gcide) | Puckball \Puck"ball`\, n. [Puck + ball.]
A puffball.
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Pucker
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
[1913 Webster]Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
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2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;
agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Puckered
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
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Puckerer
(gcide) | Puckerer \Puck"er*er\, n.
One who, or that which, puckers.
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Puckering
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
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puckermouth
(gcide) | Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa
flatish, plaice. See Place.] (Zool.)
(a) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to
the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten
pounds or more.
(b) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus;
called also brail, puckermouth, and {summer
flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied
species. [Written also plaise.]
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Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry
mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson.
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Puckery
(gcide) | Puckery \Puck"er*y\, a.
1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery
taste. --Lowell.
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2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers
or wrinkles.
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Puckfist
(gcide) | Puckfist \Puck"fist`\, n.
A puffball.
[1913 Webster]Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
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puckfist
(gcide) | Puckfist \Puck"fist`\, n.
A puffball.
[1913 Webster]Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
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Puckish
(gcide) | Puckish \Puck"ish\, a. [From Puck.]
Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. "Puckish freaks." --J.
R. Green.
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Unpucker
(gcide) | Unpucker \Un*puck"er\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + pucker.]
To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.
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hockey puck
(wn) | hockey puck
n 1: a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used
instead of a ball in ice hockey [syn: puck, {hockey
puck}] |
icing the puck
(wn) | icing the puck
n 1: (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your
own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the
opponent's goal [syn: icing, icing the puck] |
pucka
(wn) | pucka
adj 1: absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka
quarters with a swarm of servants" [syn: pukka,
pucka] |
pucker
(wn) | pucker
n 1: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in
cloth) [syn: pucker, ruck]
v 1: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
2: draw together into folds or puckers [syn: gather, pucker,
tuck]
3: become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" [syn:
pucker, ruck, ruck up] |
puckerbush
(wn) | puckerbush
n 1: evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United
States having small hard berries thickly coated with white
wax used for candles [syn: bay myrtle, puckerbush,
Myrica cerifera] |
puckish
(wn) | puckish
adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying
with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch,
impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated,
prankish, puckish, wicked] |
puckishly
(wn) | puckishly
adv 1: in an appealing but bold manner; "she asked him impishly
to come in" [syn: impishly, puckishly] |
puckishness
(wn) | puckishness
n 1: the trait of behaving like an imp [syn: impishness,
mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality] |
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