"puckle" meaning in All languages combined

See puckle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: puckles [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English *poukel, *pukel, from Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”), diminutive of pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”), equivalent to puck + -le. Cognate with Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”). More at puck. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|*poukel}} Middle English *poukel, {{m|enm|*pukel}} *pukel, {{inh|en|ang|pūcel||a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit}} Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”), {{m|ang|pūca||demon, goblin, imp}} pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”), {{suffix|en|puck|le}} puck + -le, {{cog|da|pokker||devil, deuce}} Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”), {{l|en|puck}} puck Head templates: {{en-noun}} puckle (plural puckles)
  1. (obsolete) The devil; Satan. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-puckle-en-noun-G6rVxEJ1
  2. (dialectal) A fairy; elf; sprite. Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-puckle-en-noun-Qr9~Tp4X Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -le Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -le: 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: puck

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for puckle meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*poukel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *poukel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "*pukel"
      },
      "expansion": "*pukel",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "pūcel",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "pūca",
        "3": "",
        "4": "demon, goblin, imp"
      },
      "expansion": "pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "puck",
        "3": "le"
      },
      "expansion": "puck + -le",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "pokker",
        "3": "",
        "4": "devil, deuce"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "puck"
      },
      "expansion": "puck",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *poukel, *pukel, from Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”), diminutive of pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”), equivalent to puck + -le. Cognate with Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”). More at puck.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puckles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "puckle (plural puckles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "puck"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The devil; Satan."
      ],
      "id": "en-puckle-en-noun-G6rVxEJ1",
      "links": [
        [
          "devil",
          "devil"
        ],
        [
          "Satan",
          "Satan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The devil; Satan."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -le",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fairy; elf; sprite."
      ],
      "id": "en-puckle-en-noun-Qr9~Tp4X",
      "links": [
        [
          "fairy",
          "fairy"
        ],
        [
          "elf",
          "elf"
        ],
        [
          "sprite",
          "sprite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) A fairy; elf; sprite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "puckle"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms suffixed with -le"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "*poukel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English *poukel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "*pukel"
      },
      "expansion": "*pukel",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "pūcel",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "pūca",
        "3": "",
        "4": "demon, goblin, imp"
      },
      "expansion": "pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "puck",
        "3": "le"
      },
      "expansion": "puck + -le",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "pokker",
        "3": "",
        "4": "devil, deuce"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "puck"
      },
      "expansion": "puck",
      "name": "l"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *poukel, *pukel, from Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”), diminutive of pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”), equivalent to puck + -le. Cognate with Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”). More at puck.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puckles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "puckle (plural puckles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "puck"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The devil; Satan."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "devil",
          "devil"
        ],
        [
          "Satan",
          "Satan"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) The devil; Satan."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fairy; elf; sprite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fairy",
          "fairy"
        ],
        [
          "elf",
          "elf"
        ],
        [
          "sprite",
          "sprite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) A fairy; elf; sprite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "puckle"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.