windsucker
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
windsucker (plural windsuckers)
- A horse#Noun|horse with the habit of windsucking.
- (archaic) Synonym of windfucker#English|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, small OCLC 503923722, Act IV, scene i; republished in Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare (Collection of British Authors; 1041), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869, small OCLC 906168617, page 333 ↗:
- Yes, and a goshawk was his father, for aught we know; for I am sure his mother was a wind-sucker.
- small 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, small OCLC 503923722, Act IV, scene i; republished in Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare (Collection of British Authors; 1041), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869, small OCLC 906168617, page 333 ↗:
- (derogatory) A term of abuse.
- 1692, Ben Jonson, “Epicoene”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: Printed by Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, OCLC 12720406 ↗, Act I, scene iv, page 186 ↗, column 2:
- Cle[rimont] Did you ever hear ſuch a Wind-ſucker, as this? / Dau[phine] Or ſuch a Rook as the other! that will betray his Maſter to be ſeen. Come, 'tis time we prevented it.
- {small
- The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
- (bird; term of abuse) fuckwind, windfucker, windhover
- (horse) windsuck, windsucking
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