Word Meanings - PUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUCK)

• Dwarf
• Pigmy
• abortion
• puck

Related words: (words related to PUCK)

• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• ABORTION
  Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. 4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his
• DWARF
  An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively
• ABORTIONAL
  Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.
• PIGMY
  See
• ABORTIONIST
  One who procures abortion or miscarriage.
• DWARFISH
  Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub. -- Dwarf"ish*ly, adv. -- Dwarf"ish*ness, n.
• DWARFY
  Much undersized. Waterhouse.
• BEDWARF
  To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.