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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Alternative form of puck (“mischievous or hostile spirit”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A small boil, pimple, or pustule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A blister.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A sty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Apparently a dialectal variant of Middle English poke, a variant of pok, pock, pocke, from Old English poc, pocc (“pustule, pimple”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokk. More at pock.
