Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mischievous sprite in English folklore; Puck.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A domestic spirit or fairy, said to be the offspring of a mortal woman and Oberon, king of Fairyland.
- noun As a general name, an elf; a fairy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A celebrated fairy; Puck. See
puck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mischievous sprite of English folklore
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Examples
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He is also known as Robin Goodfellow, and he's rather mischievous, but he does make up for it by trying to do the right thing.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Stephanie 2008
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And once inside they become the playthings of Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, also known in myth as the Green Man of the forest, the Green Man being a pagan symbol of fertility, fertility being, in other words, Peter? '
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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There was a little hunchbacked tailor, named William Goodfellow, living on his property (but who at Abbotsford was termed Robin Goodfellow).
Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878
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a little hunchbacked tailor, named William Goodfellow, living on his property (but who at Abbotsford was termed Robin Goodfellow).
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861
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Directed by the Gate Theatre's Natalie Abrahami, Headlong's latest touring production relocates Shakespeare's familiar play to a Hollywood studio and reimagines it as a dream experienced by the hugely creative director Robin Goodfellow, who is having some difficulties with his leading man and lady.
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His brother Niko is a super-disciplined martial arts expert who never fails to remind Cal that Cheetos do not belong in a major food group and Robin Goodfellow famously known as the puck from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream is on the trip to test a vow of monogamy and act as a general distraction.
Archive 2010-05-01 2010
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Maytime rituals in England marked the return of fertility to the land and customarily featured two presiding spirits: Robin Goodfellow, the rough-and-ready huntsman, precursor of Robin Hood, and the Queen of the May, clad in white and garlanded in flowers, an emblem of the abundance and anarchy of spring.
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His brother Niko is a super-disciplined martial arts expert who never fails to remind Cal that Cheetos do not belong in a major food group and Robin Goodfellow famously known as the puck from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night's Dream is on the trip to test a vow of monogamy and act as a general distraction.
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He morphed into the character of Robin Goodfellow—a Puck-like nature sprite likely taken from the Greek god, Pan.
Archive 2009-05-01 Joanna Waugh 2009
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It is from Robin Goodfellow that stories of Robin Hood were spawned.
Archive 2009-05-01 Joanna Waugh 2009
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