Woodcock

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Fig.: A simpleton.

II. Woodcock ·noun 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.

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