pucksy

发音

/ˈpʌksi/

词形变化

pucksies 复数

别名

pucksey puxy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An area of miry or swampy ground; a place (in a road, field, etc) where a spring rises, or where rain pools, and keeps the ground miry.

    废旧

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:pucksy.

  2. 1.

    A puck (mischievous or hostile spirit) or pixie.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:pucksy.

词源

Unclear. The English Dialect Dictionary and Dictionary of the Scots Language mention a northeastern Scottish (Banff) dialectal word pouk "hole in the ground, usually waterlogged or marshy" which could be related (compare also pughole); the DSL considers that pouk to be the same word as the verb pouk (“to poke, to thrust”), and notes that in Banff pouk also means "dig or excavate in a careless, clumsy way, damage by excavation or holing". Alternatively, compare pock (“pit”). (In the 1800s, Halliwell-Phillipps speculated that the mires might be named in reference to the folk belief that pucksies/pucks (“mischievous or hostile spirits”) led travelers astray, potentially into bogs.

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