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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