Brewer's: Woodcock

(A). A fool is so called from the supposition that woodcocks are without brains. Polonius tells his daughter that protestations of love are “springes to catch woodcocks.” (Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 3.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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