woodcock
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- noun
- /ˈwʊdˌkɒk/
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bécada
- Joze woke alone to a breakfast of cold woodcock and the sound of Islief and Kicva in disagreement.
- woodcock and grouse
- woodcock and quail
- woodcock cover
Examples
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With one swing, he tossed a brace of woodcock in the corner.
Fiction book (1992) -
I practically stepped on a woodcock this past spring while doing a stream clean-up.
Blog text (2) -
Hunting for woodcock, which prefer similar habitats to grouse, doesn't open until Saturday, Sept. 22.
Blog text (6) -
Still, with the aid of Jake, Ted's 3-year-old English setter, we saw our flushes, including a number of woodcock.
Blog text (6) -
A fall of woodcocks skimmed a tree-ringed meadow, their flight sounding like faraway drumming.
Fiction book (1992) -
On our trip, we spotted several woodcock flying through the dense forest at sunset.
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The chef prepared a special dish featuring woodcock that delighted all the guests at the banquet.
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Many birdwatchers gather in the autumn to observe the migration of woodcock in their natural habitat.
Synonyms
A small North American bird with a long bill that uses it to find worms and people hunt for food
A small North American bird with a long bill that lives in wet fields
A North American bird with a long bill that makes a spiral flight during mating season
A short-legged, long-billed bird with mottled brown feathers that migrates across Europe and Asia
A medium sized woodland bird with short legs and a long bill that migrates
Compounds
A short-legged, long-billed bird with mottled brown feathers that migrates across Europe and Asia
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Woodcock comes from the two parts wood ('forest') and cock (an old word for a 'bird'), so it originally meant a 'bird of the woods'. That's why a woodcock is a shy, brown forest bird with a long bill that hides in the bushes.