puckn.[OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. pki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.]1. (Medival Myth.) 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.)2. (Zol.) The goatsucker.()n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.()a.[Hind. pakk 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.()It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. (Kipling.)