woodcock

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Once more we shall have our meals in quiet Mrs. Carnaby loved a good dinner right well, a dinner unplagued by hospitable cares; when a woodcock was her own to dwell on, and pretty little teeth might pick a pretty little bone at ease Eliza, you are always such a creature of the moment," Mistress Yordas answered, indulgently; "you do love the good things of the world too much.

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  1. noun Either of two related game birds, Scolopax rusticola of the Old World or Philohela minor of North America, having brownish plumage, short legs, and a long bill.

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  1. from Middle English wodekoc, wodekok, woddecoke, from Anglo-Saxon wuducoc, a woodcock; as wood + cock.
 

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/ˈwədkɑk/
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