puck

puck, in Germanic folklore, generic name for various malevolent spirits. The medieval English pouke was often identified with the devil. However, the Puck of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a mischievous but friendly fairy.

Puck, in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus.

Puck may refer to:

• Puck (mythology), a nature spirit

Characters

• Puck (Shakespeare), from A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Puck, the narrator of the book Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) by Rudyard Kipling
• Puck, a character in the Japanese anime/manga Berserk
• Puck (comics), a diminutive superhero in Marvel comics
• Puck, a trickster in the animated television show Gargoyles
• Peter Puck, the name of a hockey-puck-shaped cartoon character
• Puck, a minor character appearing in Final Fantasy IX
• Puck the talking dog, a character in Ouida's 1870 novel Puck who narrates and makes comments on British society.
• Puck (The Faerie Dragon), a hero in the video game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne's custom map, "Defense of the Ancients"
• Puck, a character in the novel series "The Sisters Grimm"
• Puck, a British fairy bucca in "Simply Puck"

People

• Theodore Puck (1916-2005), American geneticist
• Wolfgang Puck (born 1949), an Austrian celebrity chef and restaurateur
• Kirby Puckett
• Axel (Puck) Munthe, Swedish physician and author
• David "Puck" Rainey a cast member from MTV's reality television show, The Real World

Places

• Puck (moon), a moon of Uranus
• Puck, Poland, a town in Poland
• Puck Building, a block in Manhattan, New York City, USA
• Bay of Puck, a shallow western part of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea

Others

• Puck - (the band), South African based electronic band
• Puck (sports), the object used for scoring goals in ice hockey, roller hockey, underwater hockey, air hockey, carrom and novuss
• Sausage patty
• Puck (goat), a specially captured wild goat crowned "King Puck" at Puck Fair every year in Ireland
• Puck (magazine), a 19th century US periodical
• Puck (literary magazine), a late 20th century US periodical
• Puck, an amount of tamped coffee within an espresso machine's portafilter
• Puck (computing), a pointing device used with a Graphics tablet