Meaning

(archaic) The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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 [...]

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.

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