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Puck

The English word “Puck” has 2 meanings listed here.

proper noun

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

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.

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