Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word windfucker. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word windfucker, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say windfucker in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word windfucker you have here. The definition of the word windfucker will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofwindfucker, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
If the term is a compound of wind + fucker, it may preserve an old sense of fuck(“to beat, strike”) which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän Swedishfokka(“to fuck; thrust, push”)) but was otherwise lost from English,[1][2] and it can be compared to the regional synonym fuckwind.[1] (Wright's English Dialect Dictionary compares fuck in the latter word to fjúka(“be driven (by the wind); fly”) instead,[3] while Liberman says the Norse word "has no cognates anywhere in Germanic".)[1] 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.
1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, London: Printed at London, by Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 405:
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 enuiousWindfucker, 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.
1648, Henry Hexham, “een Krijter, ofte Steen-krijter”, in A Copious English and Netherduytch Dictionarie Composed out of Our Best English Authours. With an Appendix of the Names of All Kinds of Beasts, Fovvles, Birds, Fishes, Hunting, and Havvking. As also a Compendious Grammar for the Instruction of the Reader. Het groot woorden-boeck, gestelt in't Engelsch ende Nederduytsch. Met een Appendix van de namen van alderley Beesten, Vogelen, Visschen, Jagerye, ende Valckerye, &c. Als oock, een korte Engelsche Grammatica, Rotterdam: Gedruckt by Aernovt Leers, →OCLC:
een Krijter, ofte Steen-krijter, A Caſtrill, or a Windefucker.
1991, Geoffrey Hughes, “A Cursory Introduction”, in Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English (Language Library), Oxford: Basil Blackwell, →ISBN:
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.
2008, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, The Grimoire of Grimalkin, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:
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.
2011, Stephen Moss, “April”, in Wild Hares and Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village, London: Square Peg, →ISBN, page 89:
As a devout Catholic, [Gerard Manley] Hopkins might have been shocked by an even older name for the kestrel: the wind fucker, [...]
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 (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.
1980, Nicholas Grene, “Monstrous Regiment”, in Shakespeare, Jonson, Molière: The Comic Contract, London, Basingstoke, Hampshire: The Macmillan Press, →OCLC, page 117:
‘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.
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.
[The] OED gives no etymology of windfucker but compares it with northern reg fuckwind 'a species of hawk'. [...] According to that dictionary [the American Heritage Dictionary], the Germanic verb in question originally meant 'strike, move quickly, penetrate,' [...]
Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "The Windhover" might not present itself quite so endearingly had he chosen to call it "The Windfucker", although the meaning would be unchanged. Before the word fuck began its descent into outlawed vernacular, it had had an earlier meaning, to beat or strike.
common kestrel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926.
