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windcuffer

windcuffer noun: the common kestrel.

Noun

windcuffer (plural windcuffers)

  1. (UK, dialectal, rare) The common kestrel.
    • A windcuffer hovered overhead.1980, Hamish M. Brown, Hamish's mountain walk: the first traverse, page 51
    • An auld ram alone huddled against the wind, that had swept clear the skies even of eagle, windcuffer, and goose. The scent of saltwater rode the wind over the freshwater loch, and the dry field-grasses rattled,2012, GMW Wemyss, Sensible Places: essays on place, time, & countryside →ISBN, in Wiltonshire, England), page 6

Forms of windcuffer

pluralwindcuffers

Origin of windcuffer

From wind + cuffer, from cuff (“hit, slap”); compare windhover.

Questions about windcuffer

What does windcuffer mean?
Windcuffer means the common kestrel.
What part of speech is windcuffer?
Windcuffer is a noun.
What is the plural of windcuffer?
The plural of windcuffer is windcuffers.

Words near windcuffer in the dictionary

  1. windchilled
  2. windchills
  3. windchime
  4. windchimes
  5. windclothes
  6. windcuffer
  7. windcuffers
  8. winddown
  9. winddowns
  10. winde
  11. Windeatt

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