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Puck
Does anybody know the origin and meaning of the name Puck?
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It's from Midsummer Night's Dream...its one of the faeries ^_^
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Since your Dutch, i'm quoting www.meertens.knaw.nl (Nederlandse BTN zeg maar)Puck:
Eng. vleiwoord: `kabouter, rakker'. Oorspr. is het de naam van een kabouterachtig wezen, dat men ook vindt in Shakespeare's `Midsummer Night's Dream'. Vgl. Ndl. `schelm, kleine boef' als liefkozende benaming voor kleine kinderen; ook puk en ukkepuk. Een enkele maal als voornaam aangetroffen Indy
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'According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the etymology of the name Puck is "unsettled", and it is not even clear whether its origin is Germanic (cf. Old Norse puki,) or Celtic (Welsh pwca and Irish púca ).'Shakespeare's character Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream is based on a pagan trickster of the same name.
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