Faun vs Puck - What's the difference?
faun | puck |
(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
(ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
* 1886 , Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
(chiefly, Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
* 2004 , Art Directors Annual , v 83, Rotovision,
(computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
As nouns the difference between faun and puck
is that faun is a woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry while puck is a hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.As a proper noun Puck is
a mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.faun
English
Alternative forms
* faune (rare or archaic)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* satyrSee also
* ("faun" on Wikipedia)puck
English
Etymology 1
Attested since 1886. From or influenced by (etyl) . Compare poke (1861).Noun
(en noun)- In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck ’, is used.
p 142:
- He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck'. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal ' puck .