woodcock

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woodcock (plural woodcock or woodcocks)

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.
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 […]

wading bird in the genus Scolopax

Albanian: shapkë (sq) f
Armenian: կտցար (hy) (ktcʿar)
Old Armenian: կտցար (ktcʿar)
Azerbaijani: çilingdimdik
Breton: kefeleg (br) m
Catalan: becada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鷸 (zh), 鹬 (zh) (yù)
Chuvash: кăрăпчак (kărăpčak)
Cornish: kevelek m
Corsican: biccazza (co) f
Czech: sluka (cs) f
Danish: skovsneppe (da) c
Dutch: houtsnip (nl) f, snip (nl) f
Esperanto: skolopo
Estonian: kurvits
Finnish: lehtokurppa (fi), kurppa (fi)
French: bécasse (fr) f
Friulian: gjalinace f
Georgian: ტყისქათამი (ṭq̇iskatami)
German: Waldschnepfe f
Greek: μπεκάτσα (el) f (bekátsa)
Ancient: σκολόπαξ m (skolópax), ἀσκαλώπας m (askalṓpas)
Hebrew: חַרְטוֹמָן‎ m (khartóman)
Hungarian: erdei szalonka (hu)
Ido: bekaso (io)
Irish: creabhar m
Italian: beccaccia (it) f, acceggia f