ALL meanings of woodcock
wood·cock
W w - noun plural woodcock either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor. 1
- noun plural woodcock any of various pileated or ivory-billed woodpeckers. 1
- noun plural woodcock Archaic. a simpleton. 1
- noun woodcock game bird 1
- noun woodcock A woodland bird of the sandpiper family, with a long bill, brown camouflaged plumage, and a distinctive display flight. 1
- countable noun woodcock A woodcock is a small brown bird with a long beak. Woodcock are sometimes shot for sport or food. 0
- noun woodcock an Old World game bird, Scolopax rusticola, resembling the snipe but larger and having shorter legs and neck: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes 0
- noun woodcock 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. 0
- noun woodcock a related North American bird, Philohela minor 0
- noun woodcock a simpleton 0
- noun woodcock a migratory European shorebird (Scolopax rusticola) with short legs and a long bill, of the same family (Scolopacidae) as snipe: it is hunted as game 0
- noun woodcock a smaller game bird (Philohela minor) of the same family that frequents bogs and swampy places of E North America 0
- noun woodcock a fool; dupe 0