puck

n. [ OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. pūki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug. ] 1. (Mediæval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, “the merry wanderer of the night;” -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He meeteth Puck, whom most men call
Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The goatsucker. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ Written also pukka. ] [ Hind. pakkā cooked, ripe, solid. ] Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [ India ]

It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Puck + ball. ] A puffball. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Puckered p. pr. & vb. n. Puckering. ] [ From Poke a pocket, small bag. ] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. “His skin [ was ] puckered up in wrinkles.” Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, puckers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A puffball. [ 1913 Webster ]