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