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woodcock

[ woo d-kok ]
/ ˈwʊdˌkɒk /
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noun, plural wood·cocks, (especially collectively) wood·cock for 1, 2.

either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
any of various pileated or ivory-billed woodpeckers.
Archaic. a simpleton.

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Words related to woodcock

grouse, quail, curlew, partridge, pheasant, plover, sandpiper, snipe, wildfowl

Words nearby woodcock

woodchip, woodchipper, woodchop, woodchopper, woodchuck, woodcock, woodcraft, woodcrafter, woodcraftsman, woodcreeper, woodcut

Origin of woodcock

before 1050; Middle English wodecok, Old English wuducoc. See wood1, cock1
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British Dictionary definitions for woodcock

woodcock
/ (ˈwʊdˌkɒk) /

noun

an Old World game bird, Scolopax rusticola, resembling the snipe but larger and having shorter legs and neck: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
a related North American bird, Philohela minor
obsolete a simpleton
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