<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian <em>Scolopax rusticola</em> and the smaller American <em>Philohela minor</em>.</li><li>Any of various pileated or ivory-billed woodpeckers.</li><li>Archaic: a simpleton.</li></ul>