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windsucker
English
Etymology
wind +? sucker. Where the bird or term of abuse sense is concerned, some believe the word is a recent bowdlerization of windfucker; however, it appears since at least the 17th century. See the etymology of windfucker.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?w?nds?k?(?)/
- Hyphenation: wind?suck?er
Noun
windsucker (plural windsuckers)
- A horse with the habit of windsucking.
- (archaic) Synonym of windfucker.
- The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
- 1622 (first performance), William Shakespeare; William Rowley [probably by William Rowley alone], The Birth of Merlin; or, The Childe hath Found His Father. As it hath been Several Times Acted with Great Applause. Written by William Shakespear and William Rowley, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Johnson for Francis Kirkman and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane, published 1662, ?OCLC, Act IV, scene i; republished in Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare (Collection of British Authors; 1041), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869, ?OCLC, page 333:
- Yes, and a goshawk was his father, for aught we know; for I am sure his mother was a wind-sucker.
- In the 1662 (1st) edition, the word is indicated as wind-fucker.
- Yes, and a goshawk was his father, for aught we know; for I am sure his mother was a wind-sucker.
- 1622 (first performance), William Shakespeare; William Rowley [probably by William Rowley alone], The Birth of Merlin; or, The Childe hath Found His Father. As it hath been Several Times Acted with Great Applause. Written by William Shakespear and William Rowley, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Johnson for Francis Kirkman and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane, published 1662, ?OCLC, Act IV, scene i; republished in Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare (Collection of British Authors; 1041), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869, ?OCLC, page 333:
- (derogatory) A term of abuse.
- The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
Alternative forms
- wind-sucker
Synonyms
- (bird; term of abuse): fuckwind, windfucker, windhover
Related terms
- (horse): windsuck, windsucking (noun)
Further reading
- common kestrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
windsucker From the web:
- what is a windsucker horse
- what does windsucking mean in horses
- why do horses start windsucking
- can you stop a horse from windsucking
windfucker
English
Etymology
If the term is a compound of wind +? fucker, it may preserve an old sense of fuck (“to beat, to strike”) which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; to thrust, to 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 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 wind?ucker using a long s, so some scholars think windfucker is a misreading of wind?ucker; others think wind?ucker is a bowdlerization of windfucker. Compare the later term windhover and the Orkney term windcuffer.
Modern attestations of the second, vulgar sense are possibly unrelated to the bird, unless of educated and/or heavily dialectal use.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?w?ndf?k?(?)/
- Hyphenation: wind?fuck?er
Noun
windfucker (plural windfuckers)
- (archaic) The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
- 1622 (first performance), William Shakespeare; William Rowley [probably by William Rowley alone], The Birth of Merlin; or, The Childe hath Found His Father. As it hath been Several Times Acted with Great Applause. Written by William Shakespear and William Rowley, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Johnson for Francis Kirkman and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane, published 1662, ?OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
- Yes, and a Go?hawk was his father, for ought we know, for I am ?ure his mother was a Wind-fucker.
- In an 1869 version, the word is indicated as wind-sucker.
- Yes, and a Go?hawk was his father, for ought we know, for I am ?ure his mother was a Wind-fucker.
- 1622 (first performance), William Shakespeare; William Rowley [probably by William Rowley alone], The Birth of Merlin; or, The Childe hath Found His Father. As it hath been Several Times Acted with Great Applause. Written by William Shakespear and William Rowley, London: Printed by Tho[mas] Johnson for Francis Kirkman and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane, published 1662, ?OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
- (often archaic, derogatory, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- 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 (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ?ISBN, pages 1540–1541:
- 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 (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ?ISBN, pages 1540–1541:
Synonyms
- fuckwind
- windhover
- windsucker
References
Further reading
- common kestrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “windfucker, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1926
windfucker From the web:
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