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dantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago

Common kestrel (historically called the windfucker, due to its habit of hovering on the wind, no joke)

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Common kestrel (historically called the windfucker, due to its habit of hovering on the wind, no joke)

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  • zabadoh@ani.social
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    from 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…

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPM
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      Well that was one possible explanation, but your own source points out fuck had a different archaic meaning.

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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    What beautiful plumage! 😍

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