E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
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-wimged” fairies around him. (See Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, ii. 1; iii. 1.)
