Obs. [Cf. ‘Fuckwind, a species of hawk. North.’ (Halliwell).]
1. A name for the kestrel: cf. WINDHOVER.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 49. The kistrilles or windfuckers that filling themselues with winde, fly against the winde euermore.
2. fig. as a term of opprobrium.
1602. Narcissus, MS. Rawl. Poet. 212, lf. 80. I tell you, my little windfuckers, had not a certaine melancholye ingendred with a nippinge dolour overshadowed the sunne shine of my mirthe, I had beene I pre, sequor, one of your consorte.
1609. B. Jonson, Silent Wom., I. iv. (1620), C 3 b. Did you euer heare such a Wind-fucker, as this?
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, Pref. A 4. There is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers vp and downe, laboriously ingrossing al the air with his luxurious ambition.
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Wit without M., IV. i. Husbands for Whores and Bawdes, away you wind-suckers [sic ed. 1639].
