Puck

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.

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  2. 2.

    One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.

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词源

From puck (“mischievous spirit”), from Middle English pouke, 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.

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