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  • Puck (mythology)
    Puck (mythology)
    Puck is a mythological fairy or mischievous nature sprite. Puck is also a generalised personification of land spirits. Whilst being an aspect of Robin Goodfellow, he is also hob and Will-o'-the-wisp.-Etymology :...

    , a nature spirit
  • Puck (sports)
    Puck (sports)
    A puck is a disk used in various games serving the same functions as a ball in ball games. The best-known use of pucks is in ice hockey, a major international sport.-In ice hockey:Ice hockey requires a hard disk of vulcanized rubber...

    , used instead of a ball in ice hockey and other sports
  • Puck (literary magazine)
    Puck (literary magazine)
    Puck: The Unofficial Journal of the Irrepressible was published by San Francisco-based Permeable Press in the early and mid-1990s. Edited by Brian Charles Clark, Puck published numerous writers in the literary underground, including Hugh Fox, Michael Hemmingson, Lance Olsen, Mark Amerika, Freddie...

    , a late 20th century US periodical
  • Puck (magazine)
    Puck (magazine)
    Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoon caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918.- History :...

    , a 19th century US periodical
  • Puck (computing), a pointing device used with a graphics tablet
  • Puck Fair, a yearly Irish festival in which a goat is crowned "King Puck"
  • Puck, an amount of tamped coffee within an espresso
    Espresso
    Caffè espresso, espresso, is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee....

     machine's portafilter

Places

  • Puck (moon)
    Puck (moon)
    Puck is an inner moon of Uranus. It was discovered in December 1985 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The name Puck comes from Celtic mythology and English folklore. The orbit of Puck lies between the rings of Uranus and the first of Uranus' large moons, Miranda. Puck is approximately spherical in...

    , a moon of Uranus
  • Puck, Poland
    Puck, Poland
    Puck is a town in northwestern Poland with 11,350 inhabitants. It is in Gdańsk Pomerania on the south coast of the Baltic Sea . Previously in the Gdańsk Voivodeship , Puck has been the capital of Puck County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999.-History:The settlement became a marketplace...

    , a town in Poland
  • Puck Building
    Puck Building
    The Puck Building occupies the block bounded by Lafayette, Houston, Mulberry and Jersey Streets in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, USA. This example of Romanesque Revival architecture, designed by Albert and Herman Wagner, was constructed in 1885 and expanded in 1893...

    , a block in Manhattan, New York City, USA
  • Bay of Puck
    Bay of Puck
    The Bay of Puck or Puck Bay , historically also known as the Bay of Putzig , is a shallow western branch of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea, off the shores of Gdańsk Pomerania, Poland. It is separated from the open sea by the Hel Peninsula.The bay has an average depth of 2-6 metres...

    , part of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea

People

  • Theodore Puck
    Theodore Puck
    Theodore Puck was an American geneticist born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Chicago public schools and obtained his bachelors and masters degree from the University of Chicago....

     (1916-2005), American geneticist
  • Wolfgang Puck
    Wolfgang Puck
    Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an Austrian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and businessman based in Los Angeles...

     (born 1949), Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur
  • Axel Munthe
    Axel Munthe
    Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe was a Swedish physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele , an autobiographical account of his work and life....

     (1857-1949), Swedish physician and author who used "Puck" as a pen-name
  • David "Puck" Rainey, cast member from MTV's reality television show, The Real World
  • Puck bunny
    Puck bunny
    A puck bunny is a female ice hockey fan, often one whose interest in the sport is primarily motivated by sexual attraction to the players rather than enjoyment of the game itself...

    , a female hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice Hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team's goal. It is a fast-paced and physical sport...

     groupie

Characters

  • Puck (Shakespeare)
    Puck (Shakespeare)
    Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream that was based on the ancient figure in English mythology, also called Puck. Puck is a clever and mischievous elf and personifies the trickster or the wise knave...

    , from A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Puck (comics)
    Puck (comics)
    Puck is the codename of two fictional characters, a father and daughter pair who are both members of Alpha Flight, in the Marvel Comics universe-Puck :...

    , a diminutive superhero in Marvel comics
  • Puck, the narrator of the book Puck of Pook's Hill
    Puck of Pook's Hill
    Puck of Pook's Hill is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by elf Puck, or by Puck...

    (1906) by Rudyard Kipling
  • Puck, a trickster in the animated television show Gargoyles
  • Puck, a character in the Japanese anime/manga Berserk
  • Peter Puck
    Peter Puck
    Peter Puck is a hockey puck-shaped cartoon character. The puck, whose animated adventures appeared on both NBC's Hockey Game of the Week and CBC's Hockey Night in Canada during the 1970s, explained ice hockey rules, equipment and the sport's history to the home viewing audience...

    , the name of a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character
  • Puck, a minor character appearing in Final Fantasy IX
    Final Fantasy IX
    is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square as the ninth installment in the Final Fantasy series. It was released in 2000 and is the third and last numbered Final Fantasy game for Sony's PlayStation...

  • Puck the talking dog, a character in Ouida
    Ouida
    Ouida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé .-Biography:...

    's 1870 novel Puck
  • Puck (The Faerie Dragon), a hero in the video game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne's custom map, "Defense of the Ancients
    Defense of the Ancients
    Defense of the Ancients is a custom scenario for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and its expansion, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for StarCraft. The objective of the scenario is for each team to destroy the opponents' Ancients,...

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  • Puck, a main character in the novel series "The Sisters Grimm"
  • Mister Puck, Aelita
    Aelita
    Aelita , also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made on Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel of the same name...

    's doll in Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko
    Code Lyoko is a French animated television series featuring both conventional animation and CGI. It premiered on September 3, 2003 on the France 3 network, and was produced by Antefilms during the first season, MoonScoop Group during the second and third season, and by Taffy Entertainment during...

  • Noah "Puck" Puckerman, a character in the television show "Glee
    Glee
    Glee may refer to:*Happiness*Glee , album by Bran Van 3000*Glee , composition for unaccompanied male voices*Glee , an American musical comedy television series*GLee , C/C++ library...

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