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woodcocks

woodcocks is the plural of woodcock.

Meaning of woodcock

Noun

woodcock (plural woodcock or woodcocks)

  1. Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
    • "[A]h, that was the woodcock and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him[.]"1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286
  2. A simpleton.
    • If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you / Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!"c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene...

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Proper noun capitalized: Woodcocks

Woodcocks

  1. (plural) plural of Woodcock

Phrases with woodcocks

Questions about woodcocks

What is woodcocks the plural of?
Woodcocks is the plural of woodcock.
What part of speech is woodcocks?
Woodcocks is a proper noun.

Words near woodcocks in the dictionary

  1. woodchuck
  2. woodchucks
  3. Woodchurch
  4. Woodcliff Lake
  5. woodcock
  6. woodcocks
  7. Woodcote
  8. Woodcott
  9. woodcracker
  10. woodcrackers
  11. woodcraft

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