as in fairy
an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers
dreamed that her garden was the secret meeting place of pucks and sprites
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Recent Examples of puck
This bulky case is protective, but in the middle around the magnetic ring sits a little removable puck.
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Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2025
Five seconds into a Wild power play, Sanderson took control of the puck behind the net and started skating it out for a dump.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2025
The trio struggled to win enough battles to retrieve the puck off the forecheck.
—Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
Colorado immediately gained possession and pushed the puck up ice.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for puck
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The last time fans saw it, Shropshire stepped out of it wearing an elf costume and holding a game ball for Santa Claus (aka coach Andy Reid).—
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Directed by Jon Favreau, the 2003 movie stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human who was accidentally raised by Santa's elves at the North Pole.—
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That often means providing upgrades of low level monsters rather than just throwing more goblins at a problem.—
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My dad’s Welsh and among my happiest memories of him are going through Brian Froud’s books about fairies, goblins and trolls.—
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.—
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That’s in addition to the strange creatures that roam the countryside such as faeries and dragon.—
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Red sprites, also known as red lightning, occur during some extremely intense thunderstorms.—
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Set in 1705 during the reign of Queen Anne, the series stars Louisa Harland (Derry Girls) as Nell Jackson, widowed and possessed of occasional supernatural skills whenever someone threatens her, courtesy of a fairy sprite named Billy Blind (Nick Mohammed).—
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Some longtime trolls on the right have grown more aggressive and offensive as their ideas have made their way closer to the party’s mainstream.—
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And up until this point, she’s seriously delivered with tons of jaw-dropping outfits that always rile up the internet trolls.—
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“Puck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/puck. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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