": a vulcanized rubber disk used in ice hockey":[],
": an evil spirit : demon":[]
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"1891, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
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"English dialect puck to poke, hit, probably from Irish poc butt, stroke in hurling, literally, buck (male deer)":"Noun",
"Middle English puke , from Old English p\u016bca ; akin to Old Norse p\u016bki devil":"Noun"
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"\u02c8p\u0259k"
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": a fold or wrinkle in a normally even surface":[],
": to become wrinkled or constricted":[],
": to contract into folds or wrinkles":[]
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"Verb",
"His skin puckered a little around the scar.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Both are perfect and lightweight enough for daytime or nighttime use for all-day nourishment \u2014 pucker up. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Scallops seared in a wood fire and nestled with shaved celery and mouth- puckering kumquat",
"The sleeves of his expensive bomber jacket puckered at the elbows. \u2014 John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker , 23 Dec. 2019",
"His arms and chest bear puckered scars from when he was slashed with a broken bottle. \u2014 Bob Ortega, CNN , 22 Oct. 2019",
"The impact puckered the car\u2019s hood, spun the vehicle around, and left the car facing the opposite direction, dripping fluids. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 22 May 2017",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Finally, the Peptide Lip Treatment goes beyond your regular lip balm by protecting and plumping your pucker while minimizing fine lines and boosting volume. \u2014 Celia Shatzman, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"These easy-to-make treats have the texture of a dense brownie and the sweet pucker of a lemon bar \u2013 thanks to the lemon juice and zest. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, USA TODAY , 9 June 2022",
"These easy-to-make treats have the texture of a dense brownie and the sweet pucker of a lemon bar \u2013 thanks to the lemon juice and zest. \u2014 Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"This one starts with a pucker -y, tart lemon curd, which is chilled before the whites and cream go in. \u2014 Sally Pasley Vargas, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022",
"The NPD Group notes that lip makeup (which folds in lip gloss and other pucker enhancers) is the fastest growing area in the makeup category for 2022. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 6 May 2022",
"Let babies taste bitterness in foods such as kale, and pucker at the sourness of grapefruit. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Apr. 2022",
"Showing off her silky smooth, rejuvenized lips with a pucker of her pout, Dr. Idriss ends the video with a smile. \u2014 Talia Gutierrez, Allure , 31 Mar. 2022",
"But my coworkers and I were talking about fresh masks \u2014 just-ripped-the-plastic-off, brand-new masks that still make our nostrils pucker . \u2014 Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com , 15 Mar. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1598, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably irregular from poke entry 1":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u0259-k\u0259r"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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": to squeeze one's lips together in the way people do when they are going to kiss someone":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-182756",
"type":[
"idiom"
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},
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"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": wax myrtle":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-192318",
"type":[
"noun"
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": impish , whimsical":[]
},
"examples":[
"He had a puckish smile on his face.",
"he takes a puckish delight in teasing her about her love life, or lack thereof",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Johnson\u2019s march to power was animated by his distinct, puckish nationalism. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
"Beneath the puckish public persona, Musk has displayed a fierce temper and what some associates and employees call a dark tendency to dismiss or harass people unlike himself. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Christian Davenport And Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"With this at the top of his mind, even the most eye-popping set piece becomes a puckish way of speaking truth to power \u2014 like a very, very elaborate prank. \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"Mysterious shapes in the shrubbery add humor to this puckish escapade for children ages 3-6. \u2014 Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Beneath the puckish public persona, Musk has displayed a fierce temper and what some associates and employees call a dark tendency to dismiss or harass people unlike himself. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Christian Davenport And Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Beneath the puckish public persona, Musk has displayed a fierce temper and what some associates and employees call a dark tendency to dismiss or harass people unlike himself. \u2014 Marc Fisher, Christian Davenport And Faiz Siddiqui, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Beneath the puckish public persona, Musk has displayed a fierce temper and what some associates and employees call a dark tendency to dismiss or harass people unlike himself. \u2014 Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Kreis, who evokes a puckish Harry Connick Jr., is vocally electric. \u2014 Charles Mcnultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1831, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"puck entry 1":""
},
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"\u02c8p\u0259-kish"
],
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"synonyms":[
"arch",
"devilish",
"elvish",
"espi\u00e8gle",
"impish",
"knavish",
"leprechaunish",
"mischievous",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"pixieish",
"prankish",
"rascally",
"roguish",
"scampish",
"sly",
"tricksy",
"waggish",
"wicked"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-213305",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"PUC":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":{
"public utilities commission":[]
},
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"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053959"
},
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city on the Ucayali River in eastern Peru population 205,000":[]
": of or relating to a culture of the southern Andes in Peru during the Tiahuanaco period characterized by a black and yellow-on-red pottery with sharp narrow incisions outlining the color areas":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u00fck\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish pucar\u00e1 , from Pucar\u00e1 , district in Peru, from Quechua puk\u00e1ra fort":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-211753"
},
"pucellas":{
"type":[
"noun plural but singular or plural in construction"
],
"definitions":{
": a spring tool resembling tongs and used for shaping molten glass":[
"next in importance to the blowpipe is the pucellas",
"\u2014 F. W. Hunter",
"the top of the glass may be opened up with pucellas",
"\u2014 Karen Gillespie"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"py\u0259\u02c8sel\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"modification of Italian procello":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-020408"
},
"pucherite":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mineral BiVO 4 consisting of a bismuth vanadate occurring in small reddish brown orthorhombic crystals":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00fc\u1e35\u0259\u02ccr\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"German pucherit , from the Pucher mine, Schneeberg, Saxony + German -it -ite":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-051042"
},
"puchero":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Latin American boiled dinner or stew containing beef, sausage, bacon, and various vegetables":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00fc\u02c8che\u02ccr\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Spanish, literally, pot, from Latin pultarius vessel for porridge, cooking or drinking vessel, from pult-, puls , a kind of thick porridge + -arius -ary":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-113734"
},
"puce":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a dark red":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8py\u00fcs"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But this week, at least, the most reliable method for inducing puce -faced rage in the Brussels diplomatic corps has been to utter the word Spitzenkandidaten. \u2014 The Economist , 22 Feb. 2018",
"Tired of painting test areas of a wall with endless shades of puce ? \u2014 Jay Samit, Fortune , 16 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, literally, flea, from Old French pulce , from Latin pulic-, pulex \u2014 more at psylla":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1781, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-114943"
},
"Puchon":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city in northwestern South Korea population 456,292":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8b\u00fc-\u02ccch\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-130916"
},
"puccoon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of several American plants (such as bloodroot) yielding a red or yellow pigment":[],
": a pigment from a puccoon":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"(\u02cc)p\u0259-\u02c8k\u00fcn"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Virginia Algonquian poughkone":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-193229"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large important family of rust fungi (order Uredinales) having stalked teliospores either separate or united in sori, being mostly heteroecious, and exhibiting in the complete forms four spore stages usually upon two or more distinct hosts followed by an independent promycelial stage upon the germination of the teliospores \u2014 see puccinia \u2014 compare short-cycled":[]
": a very large genus (the type of the family Pucciniaceae ) that is sometimes separated into four genera and consists of heteroecious parasitic fungi having 2-celled teliospores whose pedicels do not gelatinize and aecia with a pseudoperidium and including many forms that are destructive to various economic plants \u2014 see wheat rust":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u0259k\u02c8sin\u0113\u0259"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Tommaso Puccini \u20201735 Italian anatomist + New Latin -ia":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-004404"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Giacomo 1858\u20131924 Italian composer":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00fc-\u02c8ch\u0113-n\u0113"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220713-014409"
},
"Puccinia":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": a very large genus (the type of the family Pucciniaceae ) that is sometimes separated into four genera and consists of heteroecious parasitic fungi having 2-celled teliospores whose pedicels do not gelatinize and aecia with a pseudoperidium and including many forms that are destructive to various economic plants \u2014 see wheat rust":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccp\u0259k\u02c8sin\u0113\u0259"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Tommaso Puccini \u20201735 Italian anatomist + New Latin -ia":""
