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noun, plural wood·cocks, (especially collectively) wood·cock for 1, 2.
1.
either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
2.
any of various pileated or ivory-billed woodpeckers.
3.
Archaic. a simpleton.
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