Woodcock (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural wood·cocks, (especially collectively) wood·cock for 1, 2.
  1. either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
  2. any of various pileated or ivory-billed woodpeckers.
  3. a simpleton.
noun
  1. an Old World game bird, Scolopax rusticola, resembling the snipe but larger and having shorter legs and neck: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
  2. a related North American bird, Philohela minor
  3. a simpleton
Woodcock (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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