Woodcock /(?)/

Wood·cock

Woodcock

n.
  1. 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. (Zool.)
  2. Fig.: A simpleton. [Obs.]
    If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you Run your neck into the noose, and cry, “A woodcock!”

Phrases & Compounds
Little woodcock
The common American 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.