Picked vs Puck - What's the difference?
picked | puck |
(pick)
(obsolete) pointed; sharp
* Chapman
* Mortimer
(zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
(obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
* 1590 , , V. i. 13:
* 1596 , , I. i. 193:
(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 a verb picked
is (pick).As an adjective picked
is (obsolete) pointed; sharp.As a proper noun puck is
(mythology) a mischievous sprite in celtic mythology and english folklore.picked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Picked and polished.
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
- the picked dogfish
- He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
- Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
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 .