nodcock
/ˈnɒdkɒk/Now chiefly archaic and regional
noun
A fool; a simpleton.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Nicholas Breton (?1555–c1626), poet. Probably from nod + -cock, hypocoristic suffix. Compare slightly earlier nodgecock and slightly later niddicock.
- white corpuscle
- white crop
- white-crossed
- white-crowned
- white-crowned pigeon
- white-crowned sparrow
- white currant
- white dammar
- white damp
- white darnel
- whited brown
- white death
- white devil
- white dog rose
- white dogwood
- white-dominated
- white dominion
- whited sepulchre
- white dwarf
- white-ear
- white-eared
- white-eared flycatcher
- white-eared monarch
- white eared pheasant
- white-ear scalyfin