woodcock
/ˈwʊdkɒk/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈwʊdkɒk/
woodcock
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short oo vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
wood - cock -> woodcock
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘The estate extends in all to some 5300 acres and offers some classic red and roe deer stalking, woodcock shooting and excellent brown trout fishing on a number of hill lochs.’
- ‘The nightingale and woodcock have completely disappeared.’
- ‘Tapping around my rooted limbs and grounded chest, a circus of quail, woodcock, and mallard perform.’
- ‘Feeding behaviour was most interesting, the bird rocking its body rhythmically up and down like a woodcock and as if on springs.’
- ‘Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, partridge, and chaffinch.’
- ‘Raymond has shot a pheasant and a woodcock, tripling his one-grouse tally from the morning.’
- ‘On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.’
- ‘Wild birds that might be acceptable alternatives for William include woodcock, wood pigeon, partridge and grouse.’
- ‘My parents had an American woodcock calling and displaying on their back lawn.’
- ‘A businessman used to controlling his investment portfolio has no control on the spring salmon run or the flight of the woodcock.’
- ‘No, I'm bent over double thinking what my bag limit on woodcock, snipe, rails and other game birds would be.’
- ‘And this time of year, there is tons of game: snipe, hare, pheasant.’
- ‘A traditional raffle with a dozen prizes such as brace of pheasant, duck, woodcock or rabbit, was held to raise funds for new cages.’
- ‘And I was not wrong; wild boar, stag, chamois, deer, and other ‘trophy animals’ are all to be found in Bulgaria's rich and varied countryside, along with birds such as partridge, pheasant and quail.’
- ‘The woodlands behind the house provide the habitat for roe deer, and pigeons which form the basis for a small rough shoot.’
- ‘Willow tit numbers have fallen 78 percent, woodcock by 74 percent, and song thrushes have more than halved.’
- ‘The principal game birds of Britain are grouse
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