(The name of) a mischievous sprite or goblin believed to haunt the countryside; = puck, n.1 1c. Also figurative. Cf. hobgoblin, n. 1.
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| 释义 | the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin > as unique being (6) Robin Goodfellow1528 (The name of) a mischievous sprite or goblin believed to haunt the countryside; = puck, n.1 1c. Also figurative. Cf. hobgoblin, n. 1. puck1600 With capital initial. A name given to a mischievous sprite or goblin believed to haunt the countryside; = Robin Goodfellow, n. Also †Puck-hairy (also… flibbertigibbet1603 The name of a devil or fiend. Obsolete. Hobbididance1603 The name of a malevolent sprite or fiend, one of those introduced in the morris-dance. puckling1634 A little puck (puck, n.1). ponk1755 Misprint of pouke, variant of puck, n.1, as ponke in Spenser's Epithalamion (1595), included in Johnson and later dictionaries (see quot. 1595 at puck… |
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