dantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoCommon kestrel (historically called the windfucker, due to its habit of hovering on the wind, no joke)en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down12
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkCommon kestrel (historically called the windfucker, due to its habit of hovering on the wind, no joke)en.wikipedia.orgdantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squarezabadoh@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agofrom https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windfucker …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…
minus-squaredantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 days agoWell that was one possible explanation, but your own source points out fuck had a different archaic meaning.
from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windfucker
Well that was one possible explanation, but your own source points out fuck had a different archaic meaning.