woodcock
Appearance
See also: Woodcock
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wodecocke, wode-koc, wodekok, from Old English wudecocc, wuducoc, equivalent to wood + cock.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈwʊd.kɒk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]woodcock (plural woodcock or woodcocks)
- Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, 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[.]"
- 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, 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
[edit]- 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)
- Scotch woodcock
- Sulawesi woodcock (Scolopax celebensis)
Related terms
[edit]- roding, the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock.
Translations
[edit]wading bird in the genus Scolopax
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References
[edit]- “woodcock”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
woodcock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Scolopax on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Scolopax on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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