WOODCOCK

woodcock

(noun) game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Woodcock

A surname.

Etymology

Noun

woodcock (plural woodcock or woodcocks)

Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

A simpleton.

Source: Wiktionary

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Wood"cock`, n. Etym: [AS. wuducoc.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.

Note: The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely in appearance and habits.

2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.] If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!" Beau. & Fl. Little woodcock. (a) The common American snipe. (b) The European snipe.

– Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish.

– Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus).

– Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines.

– Woodcock snipe. See under Snipe.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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