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Woodcock

//ˈwʊd.kɒk// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Old English. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A borough and neighbouring township in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.

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

  2. 2
    game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe wordnet
  3. 3
    A simpleton.

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Old English wuducoc (“woodcock”), a nickname for a stupid or gullible person.

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