woodcock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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[.]"
  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!"

词形变化

woodcock plural woodcocks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Amami woodcock American woodcock Bukidnon woodcock Eurasian woodcock Javan woodcock Moluccan woodcock New Guinea woodcock Scotch woodcock Sulawesi woodcock
相关词
roding the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock

词源

From Middle English wodecocke, wode-koc, wodekok, from Old English wudecocc, wuducoc, equivalent to wood + cock.
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