different between woodcock vs woodrock

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?d.k?k/

Noun

woodcock (plural woodcock or woodcocks)

1. 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.
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!"

   • 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 […]

Derived terms

Related terms

• roding, the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock.

Translations

English

Etymology

wood +? rock

Noun

woodrock (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A compact wood-like variety of asbestos.

Anagrams

• Rockwood, cork wood, corkwood, rockwood