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puckfist|ˈpʌkfɪst|
Also 7 puc-, pukfist, puckfoyst, 7–9 puckfoist. See also Eng. Dial. Dict.
[app. f. puck n.1 + fist n.2 Cf. puff-fist, -foist, which appears about the same date.]
1. The Puff-ball, Lycoperdon Bovista. Also abbreviated puck.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iv. v, I'll blow him into aire, when I meet him next: He dares not fight with a puck-fist. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. x. (1623) T iij, Next vnto Brimstone [for smoking bees] is the smoake of Bunt or great Pucfists, Tuchwood, or Mushrums. 1766Complete Farmer s.v. Bee, The narcotic, or stupefying fume, is made with the..large mushroom, commonly known by the name bunt, puckfist, or frog-cheese. Ibid., Cut off a piece of the puck, as large as a hen's egg, and fix it in the end of a small stick,..which place so that the puck may hang near the middle of an empty hive. 1893S.E. Worc. Gloss. s.v., I shud like a drap o' drink, fur I feels as dry as a puck-fyst.
2. A term of contempt for an empty braggart.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. 1, To be enamour'd on this dusty turf, This clod, a whoreson puck-fist. 1605Tryall Chev. iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 328 Giue me leaue to incounter this puckfist, and if I doe not make him cry Peccavi say Dicke Bowyer's a powdered Mackrell. 1637Shirley Example ii. i, Lady, he is no man..A very puck⁓fist. Jacinta. What's that, I pray? Vain. A phantom, a mere phantom. 1821Scott Kenilw. xviii, A base besognio, and a puckfist.
attrib.1615J. Taylor (Water P.) Urania xxiv. Wks. (1630) 3/2 Then loue him; else his puckfoist pompe abhorre.
†3. A close-fist, a niggard. (? an erroneous use.)
1608R. Middleton Epigr. (1840) 13 Old father pukfist knits his arteries, First strikes, then rails on Riot's villanies. 1630B. Jonson New Inn iii. ii, Pierce. A grazier's may ― Fer. O they are pinching puckfists! Trun. And suspicious. |