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You can make 3 words from puck according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of puck

puck upck pcuk cpuk ucpk cupk pukc upkc pkuc kpuc ukpc kupc pcku cpku pkcu kpcu ckpu kcpu uckp cukp ukcp kucp ckup kcup

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word puck. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in puck.

Definitions and meaning of puck

puck

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭk, IPA^(key): /pʌk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

From Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”).

Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke), Middle Low German spōk, spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). Doublet of pooka. More at spook.

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit. [from 10th c.]

Synonyms

• See goblin (hostile) and fairy (mischievous)

Derived terms

• puckish

Etymology 2

From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).

Verb

puck (third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked)

1. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike. [from 19th c.]

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. [from 19th c.]
2. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck. [from 20th c.]
3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair. [from 20th c.]
4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Danish: puck
• → German: Puck
• → Swedish: puck

Translations

See also

• Hockey puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”). Doublet of buck.

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (Ireland, rustic) billy goat

Etymology 4

Blend of pike +‎ tuck

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

Swedish

Etymology

From English puck.

Noun

puck c

1. puck

Declension

Idioms

All are colloquial.

• lugna puckar (“calm, under control”, literally “calm pucks”)
• raka puckar (“direct, blunt (compare English straight shooter)”, literally “straight pucks”)
• snabba puckar (“fast-paced”, literally “quick pucks”)

Further reading

• puck in Svensk ordbok.