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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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      What beautiful plumage! 😍

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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...

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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...

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

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