windfucker
Syllables: wind·fuck·erUK/ˈwɪndfʌkə/US/ˈwɪndfʌkɚ/
windfucker noun: the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
Noun
windfucker (plural windfuckers)
- The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
- Succhia capra, a kinde of bird which is ſaid to ſuck a goates vdder. Some haue taken it for the winde-fucker. [...] Succhiéllo, an augre, a percer, [...]. Alſo a bird called a winde-fucker.1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: Printed at London, by Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 405
- The kiſtrilles or windfuckers that filling themſelues with winde, fly againſt the wind euermore, for their ful-ſailed ſtanderdbearers, the Cranes for pikemen, and the woodcocks for demilances, and ſo of the reſt euery one, according to that place by nature hee was moſt apt for.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 49
- A term of abuse.
- Let Parliament Jone [nickname of a woman acting as an informant for the authorities to identify seditious or unlicensed printing presses] (the Devills windefucker) flie after me if she can; beware Lewis, I have need to mute.1648 May 16 – June 2, Parliament-Kite, volume II, page 9; quoted in Gordon Williams, “windfucker”, in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volume III...
- This Hollis [Frescheville Holles], Sir W[illiam] Batten and W[illiam] Penn say, proves a very wind-fucker, as Sir W. Batten terms him; and the other called him a conceited, idle, prating, lying fellow.1667 June 17, Samuel Pepys, “June”, in Robert [Clifford] Latham, William Matthews, editors, The Diary of Samuel Pepys. A New and Complete Transcription, volume 8, London: George Bell & Sons...
Examples of windfucker in a sentence
- But there is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers up and downe, laboriouſly engroßing al the aire with his luxurious ambition and buzzing into every eare my detraction [...]1611, Homer, “The Preface to the Reader”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Neuer before in any Languag...
- A cock-up of monumental proportions arming this overgrown embryo & so the stars align & geomancers tell of time being ripe to catch the big fish of desiderare before the windfucker does.2008, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, The Grimoire of Grimalkin, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:
- For oppro to set loose over the windfuckers who troubled then and trouble now.1987, Jack Womack, chapter 10, in Ambient, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 167:
Synonyms of windfucker
Forms of windfucker
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Origin of windfucker
If the term is a compound of wind + fucker, it may preserve an old sense of fuck (“to beat, strike”) which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; thrust, push”)) but was otherwise lost from English, and it can be compared to the regional synonym fuckwind. (Wright's English Dialect Dictionary compares fuck in the latter word to Old Norse fjúka (“be driven (by the wind); fly”) instead, while Liberman says the Norse word "has no [other?] cognates anywhere in Germanic".) However, the synonym windsucker is almost as old, and was rendered in older texts as windſucker using a long s, so some scholars think windfucker is a misreading of windſucker; others think windſucker is a bowdlerization of windfucker. Compare the later term windhover and the Orkney term windcuffer. Modern attestations of the second, vulgar sense may be unrelated to the bird. For the construction of this second sense compare Serbo-Croatian jebivjetar (“shallow, insecure, ostentatious person”, literally “fuckwind”).
Questions about windfucker
- What does windfucker mean?
- Windfucker means the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
- How do you use windfucker in a sentence?
- But there is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers up and downe, laboriouſly engroßing al the aire with his luxurious ambition and buzzing into every eare my detraction [...]
- What part of speech is windfucker?
- Windfucker is a noun.
- How do you pronounce windfucker?
- Windfucker is pronounced /ˈwɪndfʌkə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of windfucker?
- The plural of windfucker is windfuckers.
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