Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Puck

or Robin Goodfellow, A fairy and merry wanderer of the night, “rough, knurly-limbed, faun-faced, and shock-pated, a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged” fairies around him. (See Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1; iii. 1.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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