woodcock

Speech parts

1. woodcock - Noun

2. Woodcock - Proper noun

Meaning

Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds.

Fig.: A simpleton.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

partridge pigeon plover quail snipe sandpiper twit grouse magpie bimbo curlew scholarship chick pheasant pewee
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Hypernyms

shorebird shore bird limicoline bird

Hyponyms

American woodcock Eurasian woodcock Philohela minor Scolopax rusticola

Related terms

roding

Phrases with the word

woodcock snipe woodcock murex Amami woodcock Bukidnon woodcock Javan woodcock Moluccan woodcock

Anagrams

Cockwood

Examples

All in all, though, it was a good outing in that no one got attacked by feral dogs and we’d flushed a woodcock, an uncommon bird for Philadelphia. Source: Internet

Bedford (1974) p. 144 Reflecting on his stated motivations, Woodcock wrote that Huxley had realised that the ways to enlightenment were many, including prayer and meditation. Source: Internet

At 23:00 on 26 October 2 Battalion, The Rifle Brigade would attack Snipe and 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) would attack Woodcock. Source: Internet

Hymans, E., Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, pp. 190–1 Woodcock, pp. 110, 112 Mutualists advocate mutual banks, owned by the workers, that do not charge interest on secured loans. Source: Internet

For Woodcock a more elaborate sketch of anarchism, although still without the name, was provided by William Godwin in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). Source: Internet

For George Woodcock this attitude can be also motivated by certain idea of resistance to progress and of rejection of the growing materialism which is the nature of American society in the mid 19th century." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

woodchopper woodchuck woodchuck day woodcock murex woodcock snipe Woodcote