Pock vs Puck - What's the difference?
pock | puck |
A pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
Any pit, especially one formed as a scar
To scar or mark with pits
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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.
As a noun pock
is a pus filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.As a verb pock
is to scar or mark with pits.As a proper noun puck is
(mythology) a mischievous sprite in celtic mythology and english folklore.pock
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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 .