| 单词 | puck-hairy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPuck-hairy (also Hary) c. With capital initial. A name given to a mischievous sprite or goblin believed to haunt the countryside; = Robin Goodfellow n. Also †Puck-hairy (also Hary). Cf. hobgoblin n. 1.Usually with allusion to the character of Puck in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin > as unique being Robin Goodfellow1528 puck1600 flibbertigibbet1603 Hobbididance1603 puckling1634 ponk1755 1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth i. f. 5 But for the resemblance of his propertie and qualitie with that spirit or pooke that we cal Robin Goodfellow, or Hobgoblin.] 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 40 You are that shrewde and knauish sprite, Call'd Robin goodfellow... Those, that Hobgoblin call you, and sweete Puck, You doe their worke, and they shall haue good luck. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream Epil. 9 As I am an honest Puck..We will make amends, ere long: Else, the Puck a lyer call... And Robin shall restore amends. View more context for this quotation 1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 124 He meeteth Pucke, which most men call Hobgoblin. a1635 R. Corbet Iter Boreale in Certain Elegant Poems (1647) 11 Turne your clokes Quoth he, for Pucke is busie in these Oakes:..Then turne your Cloakes, for this is Fairie ground. 1640 in B. Jonson Sad Shepherd Dram. Pers., in Wks. III Puck-hairy, Or Robin-Goodfellow. 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem 61 He doth so punctually tell The whole oeconomy of Hell, That some affirm he is Puck Hary, Some, he hath walked with the Fairy. a1771 T. Gray Characters Christ Cross Row in Corr. Gray & N. Nicholls (1843) 220 Pleased with his Pranks, the Pisgys call him Puck. 1831 J. Ritson Fairy Tales 44 Puck, alias Robin Goodfellow, is the most active and extraordinary fellow of a fairy that we anywhere meet with. 1834 M. Howitt Sketches Nat. Hist. 13 Monkey, little merry fellow,..Full of fun, as Puck could be; Harlequin might learn of thee! 1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iii. 152 Our familiar is..a nimble and tricksy spirit, like Puck. 1917 R. Graves Fairies & Fusiliers 15 Lob and Puck, poor frantic elves, Drag their treasures from the shelves. 1946 Cosmopolitan Oct. 152/2 It was as if I had turned suddenly and caught a faun or Puck himself watching me out of the thicket of sassafras along the fencerow. 1992 Smithsonian Feb. 22/1 The figure of Puck, a baby boy with bat wings and a thatch of curly hair made famous in A Midsummer Night's Dream, perches on a toadstool. < as lemmas |
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