Meaning of windfucker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
   archaic, vulgar
2. A term of abuse.
   derogatory, vulgar

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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 [...]”

“Yes, and a Goſhawk was his father, for ought we know, for I am ſure his mother was a Wind-fucker. In an 1869 version, the word is indicated as wind-sucker.”

“een Krijter, ofte Steen-krijter, A Caſtrill, or a Windefucker.”

“The days when the dandelion could be called the pissabed, a heron could be called a shiterow, and the windhover could be called the windfucker have passed away with the exuberant phallic advertisement of the codpiece.”

“I wanted her to scan the motorway's long acre / And the tarmac and grassy patches at the airport / And undress her prey in the sky and beat the air / Above grasshopper and skylark as the wind-fucker.”

“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.”

“As a devout Catholic, [Gerard Manley] Hopkins might have been shocked by an even older name for the kestrel: the wind fucker, [...]”

“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.”

“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.”

“‘Windfucker’, with all its associations, is Sir Amorous La Foole, (and Sir John Daw for that matter) to the life [in Ben Jonson's play Epicœne, or The Silent Woman]. [...] They are windbags, all talk and no performance. [...] Exeunt windfuckers, disconsolate.”

“We speak to the new world, await solution for the trials bespoken. For oppro to set loose over the windfuckers who troubled then and trouble now.”

“Smart grabbed the man and pulled him close. He stuck his beaked nose close to Smitty's face. "You windfucker. You've been slopping the gin."”

“What a bunch of windfuckers. But then again, I suppose that when you stay in your small town, you are probably safe from being killed for the sake of being an attraction on a ghost tour.”

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