1. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The most important species are the European (Scolopax rusticola) and the American woodcock (Philohela minor), which agree very closely in appearance and habits. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Fig.: A simpleton. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, “A woodcock!” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
Little woodcock. (a)The common American snipe.(b)The European snipe. -- Sea woodcock fish, the bellows fish. -- Woodcock owl, the short-eared owl (Asio brachyotus). -- Woodcock shell, the shell of certain mollusks of the genus Murex, having a very long canal, with or without spines. -- Woodcock snipe. See under Snipe. [ 1913 Webster ]
[しぎ;シギ, shigi ; shigi] (n) (uk) sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, inc. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks) [Add to Longdo]
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