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puckfist
puckfist (ˈpʌkfɪst) Also 7 puc-, pukfist, puckfoyst, 7–9 puckfoist. See also Eng. Dial. Dict. [app. f. puck n.1 + fist n.2 Cf. puff-fist, -foist, which appears about the same date.] 1. The Puff-ball, Lycoperdon Bovista. Also abbreviated puck.1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v, I'll blow him into aire, w...
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puff-fist
† ˈpuff-fist, -foist Obs. rare. [f. puff n. or v. stem + fist n.2, foist n.3, crepitus. Cf. puckfist of same date.] = puff-ball 1.1597 Gerarde Herbal iii. clxii. 1386 Puffes Fistes [Index Puffe Fistes], are commonly called in Latine Lupi crepitus, or Woolfes Fistes:..in English Puffes Fistes, and Fu...
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punk-fist
punk-fist corruption of puckfist, associated with punk n.31890 in Cent. Dict.
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puck-ball
[puck-ball alleged syn. of puff-ball 1, puckfist 1: app. a misprint in Bailey's Folio.[1708 Kersey, Puck-fist or Puff-ball, a kind of Mushroom full of Dust. So 1721– Bailey (octavo).] 1730 Bailey (folio), Puck-ball, Puck-fist, a Kind of Mushroom full of Dust. 1755 Johnson, Puckball or puckfist (from...
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puck
▪ I. puck, pook, n.1 (pʌk, pʊk) Forms: α. 1 p{uacu}ca, 3–4 (9 Sc.) puke, 4–7 pouke, 5 powke, 6 pooke, 9 pook, pouk. β. 6–7 pucke, 7– puck. γ. 9 dial. poake. [OE. p{uacu}ca = ON. p{uacu}ki a mischievous demon. Cf. W. pwca, pwci, Ir. p{uacu}ca (pooka). Cf. poker n.2, pug n.2 The ulterior history of th...
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fist
▪ I. fist, n.1 (fɪst) Forms: 1 f{yacu}st, (fæst), 2–6 fest(e, (3 south. veste), 3–5 fust(e, (3 south. vuste), 4–5 feest, 4–6 fyst(e, 4, 6–7 fiste, 5– fist. [OE. f{yacu}st str. fem. corresponds to OFris. fêst, MLG. fûst (Du. vuist), OHG. fûst (MHG. vûst, mod.Ger. faust):—WGer. *fûsti. By some scholar...
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