woodcock

See also: Woodcock

English

Etymology

From Middle English wodecocke, wode-koc, wodekok, from Old English wudecocc, wuducoc, equivalent to wood +‎ cock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊd.kɒk/

Noun

woodcock (plural woodcock or woodcocks)

1. 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.
2. A simpleton.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you / Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!"

   • 1838, Nathan Drake, Belletristical Works (volume 1, page 215)

     "Now will that silly woodcock make such a report of what I have said to his chosen friend," observed Sir Robert to his companion when my Lord Cobham was out of hearing […]

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Amami woodcock, Scolopax mira
• American woodcock, Scolopax minor
• Bukidnon woodcock, Scolopax bukidnonensis
• Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola

• Javan woodcock, Scolopax saturata
• Moluccan woodcock, Scolopax rochussenii
• New Guinea woodcock, Scolopax rosenbergii
• Sulawesi woodcock, Scolopax celebensis

Translations

wading bird in the genus Scolopax

• Catalan: becada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鷸 (zh), 鹬 (zh) (yù)

• Cornish: kevelek m
• Czech: sluka (cs) f
• Danish: skovsneppe (da) c
• Esperanto: skolopo
• Finnish: lehtokurppa (fi), kurppa (fi)
• French: bécasse (fr) f
• German: Waldschnepfe f
• Greek: μπεκάτσα (el) f (bekátsa)
• Hungarian: erdei szalonka (hu)
• Italian: beccaccia (it) f
• Japanese: ヤマシギ (yamashigi), 山鷸 (やましぎ, yamashigi)
• Latin: scolopax f
• Latvian: sloka f

• Lithuanian: slanka f
• Macedonian: шлука f (šlúka)
• Manx: ushag rhennee f
• Norman: bécache f (Jersey)
• Polish: słonka (pl) f
• Portuguese: galinhola (pt) f
• Romanian: becață (ro) f, becațină (ro) f, sitar (ro) m
• Russian: ва́льдшнеп (ru) m (válʹdšnɛp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шљука f

  Roman: šljuka (sh) f

• Spanish: chocha (es) f, chochaperdiz f
• Swedish: morkulla (sv)
• Turkish: çulluk (tr)
• Welsh: cyffylog m