windfucker

Meaning

Noun

• The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).

Related

Similar words

• fuckwind
• windhover
• windsucker

Origin

• If the term is a compound of wind + fucker, it may preserve an old sense of fuck which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän Swedish fokka ("to fuck#Verb")) but was otherwise lost from English, and it can be compared to the regional synonym [[fuckwind. 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.