Crossword-Solution: WOODCOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Woodcock | n. | Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds. |
| Woodcock | n. | Fig.: A simpleton. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “WOODCOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| U.S. game bird | 1 answer |
| game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe | 1 answer |
| SNIPE relative | 2 answers |
| Small game bird | 2 answers |
| Snipe's kin | 3 answers |
| GIBRALTAR bird | 3 answers |
| Sandpiper's cousin. | 4 answers |
| A SANDPIPER | 10 answers |
| PLOVER relative | 12 answers |
| SHORT-billed bird | 14 answers |
| SCOTTISH bird | 15 answers |
| Game birds | 30 answers |
| Shore bird | 35 answers |
| game bird | 39 answers |
| BRITISH bird | 58 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WOODCOCK (5)
Well; it is absolutely too late for dinner! Turtle, salmon, tautog, woodcock, boiled turkey, South-Down mutton, pig, roast-beef, have vanished, or exist only in fragments, with lukewarm potatoes, and gravies crusted over with cold fat.
Ursula of Alpuxerra, there be those who might think that birds who fly o’ nights were after higher game than the moorhen or the woodcock!’ “‘Blades and targets, comrades!’ exclaimed a tall powerful man, springing into the centre of the road with several companions, and standing in front of the frightened horse.
Let some cry up woodcock or hare, Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons; But of all the GAY birds in the air, Here’s a health to the Three Jolly Pigeons.
For them the earliest salmon is caught in our eastern rivers, and the shy woodcock stains the dry leaves with his blood in his remotest haunts, and the turtle comes from the far Pacific Islands to be gobbled up in soup.
Sir Richard pointed to the swells of beautiful, dappled Dallington, that showed like a woodcock’s breast up the valley.
Quotes with WOODCOCK (2)
The winged human glanced towards Retina briefly. “It’s okay Dr. Blade. Scientists should never be blown away from the nature of facts.” Roma smiled. “And by scientists, are you one?” “That is dependent on your opinion Dr. Hill. I’m well versed by Dr. Sangha.” Roma moved towards him, narrowing his eyes. “It is my opinion that no respectable scientist will allow himself to be a subject of ridicule by turning in his human DNA to become a freak, a beast or whatever the hell it is…
It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall soon have one — a modest, private affair, all to myself. I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive — as follows: Radishes. Baked apples, with cream Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs. American coffee, with real cream. American butter. Fried chicken, Southern style. Porter-hou…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1977–1993).