Puck vs Hobgoblin - What's the difference?
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(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.
A small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.
* 1837 , Albany Fonblanque, England Under Seven Administrations , Volume 1,
* 2007 , Introduction: Phonoplay: Recasting Film Music'', Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, Richard D. Leppert (editors), ''Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema ,
* 2005 , Scott Harper, Winter's Rite ,
(by extension) A source of dread, fear or apprehension; a bugbear.
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* 2004 , James Mulvihill, Upstart Talents: Rhetoric and the Career of Reason in English Romantic Disccourse 1790-1820 ,
* 2011 , John Mueller, Mark G. Stewart, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security ,
As nouns the difference between puck and hobgoblin
is that puck is a hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game while hobgoblin is a small, ugly goblin that makes trouble for humans.As a proper noun Puck
is a mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.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 .
Derived terms
* hockey puck * puck bunny * puck carrier * puck chaser * puck chasing * puck crown * puck-dribbling * puck-handler * puck-handling * puck palace * puck-pusher * puck sense * puck-shy * puckster * rag the puckSee also
* (Hockey puck)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* puckish ----hobgoblin
English
(wikipedia hobgoblin)Noun
(en noun)page 98,
- A M. Berbiguier lately published an elaborate work, in three huge volumes, in which he demonstrated the existence of hobgoblins', described the proper manner of capturing and securing them, and took credit to himself for his zeal for the benefit of mankind, in allowing no day to pass without imprisoning, with his own hands, at least thirty '''hobgoblins'''. A writer of biographical notices of contemporary authors, who believed neither in M. Berbiguier's manner of catching '''hobgoblins''' nor in the existence of ' hobgoblins did not scruple to say that M. Berbiguier was mad, and upon this M. Berbiguier brought his action for libel; but unluckily, together with his action, he brought himself into Court, and established in a very few words the truth of the libel.
page 1,
- The monster goes unrecognized because he looks like a harmless, pudgy nobody rather than like a hobgoblin'. But he reveals his ' hobgoblin nature through music.
page 142,
- The eyes blinked out and he heard a faint grunt, followed by the sounds of the Hobgoblin scrambling further back into the tunnel, away from the faint sunlight and the Ur'hunglav's domain.
page 55,
- Under "Fallacies of Danger," then, is listed the subhead of "The Hobgoblin''' Argument, or, No Innovation'', in which the '''hobgoblin''' in question is ''anarchy''; which tremendous spectre has for its forerunner the monster ''innovation''." A hot button like this would presumably elicit a visceral response even from Hamilton whose aversion to the ' hobgoblin of parliamentary reform was apparently his sole unreasoning reflex.
page 190,
- However, the public seems to have been able to retain much of its sense of alarm about internal attacks even when the al-Qaeda hobgoblin doesn't actually carry any out.