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.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:

     "[A]h, that was the woodcock and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him[.]"

2. A simpleton.
   • c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972, Act IV, scene i:

     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

• 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

 

Related terms

• roding, the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock.

Translations

wading bird in the genus Scolopax

• Albanian: shapkë (sq) f
• Armenian: կտցար (hy) (ktcʿar)

  Old Armenian: կտցար (ktcʿar)

• Azerbaijani: çilingdimdik
• Breton: kefeleg (br) m
• Catalan: becada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鷸 (zh), 鹬 (zh) (yù)

• Chuvash: кăрăпчак (kărăpčak)
• Cornish: kevelek m
• Corsican: biccazza (co) f
• Czech: sluka (cs) f
• Danish: skovsneppe (da) c
• Dutch: houtsnip (nl) f, snip (nl) f
• Esperanto: skolopo
• Estonian: kurvits
• Finnish: lehtokurppa (fi), kurppa (fi)
• French: bécasse (fr) f
• Friulian: gjalinace f
• Galician: arcea (gl) f
• Georgian: ტყისქათამი (ṭq̇iskatami)
• German: Waldschnepfe f
• Greek: μπεκάτσα (el) f (bekátsa)

  Ancient: σκολόπαξ m (skolópax), ἀσκαλώπας m (askalṓpas)

• Hebrew: חַרְטוֹמָן‎ m (khartóman)
• Hungarian: erdei szalonka (hu)
• Ido: bekaso (io)
• Irish: creabhar m
• Italian: beccaccia (it) f, acceggia f

• Japanese: ヤマシギ (yamashigi), 山鷸 (やましぎ, yamashigi)
• Kabardian: щӀупхъхэр (ŝʾ°pχxăr)
• Latin: attagēna f, scolopax f
• Latvian: sloka f
• Lithuanian: slanka f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Boomsnip f

• Macedonian: шлу́ка f (šlúka)
• Manx: ushag rhennee f
• Norman: bécache f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rugde (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: rugde f

• Occitan: becada (oc) f, becassa (oc) f
• Old English: wuducoc m
• 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: шљу̏ка f

  Roman: šljȕka (sh) f

• Sicilian: biccaccia (scn) f
• Spanish: chocha (es) f, chochaperdiz f
• Swedish: morkulla (sv)
• Tamil: ஆங்கிலப்பெயர் (āṅkilappeyar)
• Turkish: çulluk (tr)
• Welsh: cyffylog m