Puck

Meaning

Proper Noun

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

Origin

• From puck, from Middle English puke, 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.