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compiled dictionaries weren’t just a bunch of foul-mouthed gutter scum, that they had scholarly reasons for including trash talk.When they started providing one-word obscene definitions that made no sense, however, maybe the time had A Midsummer Night’s Dream.[223] Most words had more than one meaning, and that was true of Puck. The second definition proved to be less cheerful-sounding than the first: “a malicious or mischievous demon or spirit; a goblin,”Mysterious Caller had said that the guy Fric needed to worry about had a darker side than Robin Goodfellow, alias Puck. A darker side than a malicious demon or goblin.Ugly clouds were gathering over Friclandia.Fric paged farther forward in the dictionary, looking for a guy named M-o-e L-come for the publisher to start see if it was loaded with booze.Many of his father’s associates used so many obscenities per sentence that they probably owned dictionaries that contained nothing but foul language. Yet Puck was so obscure none of them had ever spoken it in Fric’s presence.Fric paged forward through the volume, pretty sure he would discover that Puck meant “Screw you, we’re tired of defining words, make up your own meaning.”Instead, he learned that Puck was a “mischievous sprite” in English folklore and a character in Shakespeare’s
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