• IPA: /ˈwʊd.kɒk/

woodcock (plural woodcock)

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.
2. A simpleton.
   • c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 4, scene 1:

     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 […]

• roding, the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock.

• French: bécasse
• German: Waldschnepfe
• Italian: beccaccia, acceggia
• Portuguese: galinhola
• Russian: ва́льдшнеп
• Spanish: chocha, chochaperdiz

1. Surname