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Puck

In English folklore, a mischievous fairy who will play tricks on travellers, assume various shapes, or even spoil the milk. His name is related to ‘pixie’.

He appears as the servant of the fairy king Oberon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; he also figures in Goethe's Faust, and is used by the playwrights Michael Drayton and Ben Jonson, among others.



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From all I can learn of him, he is a sort of Puck, a professional mischief-maker.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
Th' hosses wooant feel YOUR weight no more nor they feel the little doog there, as I puck up on the road a fortni't agoo.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
Don't you remember the day you played Rarey with Puck, and we all looked on?
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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