windfucker

Etymology
If the term is a compound of, it may preserve an old sense of which is also found in cognates (for example, Bohuslän 🇨🇬) but was otherwise lost from English, and it can be compared to the regional synonym. (Wright's English Dialect Dictionary compares fuck in the latter word to instead, while Liberman says the Norse word "has no [other?] cognates anywhere in Germanic".) However, the synonym  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; others think windſucker is a bowdlerization of windfucker. Compare the later term and the Orkney term.

Modern attestations of the second, vulgar sense may be unrelated to the bird.

Noun

 * 1)  The common kestrel.
 * 2) * 1622 (first performance), ; [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  and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane, published 1662, , Act IV, scene i:
 * Yes, and a Goſhawk was his father, for ought we know, for I am ſure his mother was a Wind-fucker.
 * In an 1869 version, the word is indicated as.
 * 1) * 1648 May 16 – June 2, Parliament-Kite, volume II, page 9; quoted in Gordon Williams, “windfucker”, in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volume III (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-485-11393-8, pages 1540–1541:
 * Let Parliament Jone [nickname of a woman acting as an informant for the authorities to identify seditious or unlicensed printing presses] (the Devills windefucker) flie after me if she can; beware Lewis, I have need to mute.
 * In an 1869 version, the word is indicated as.
 * 1) * 1648 May 16 – June 2, Parliament-Kite, volume II, page 9; quoted in Gordon Williams, “windfucker”, in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volume III (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-485-11393-8, pages 1540–1541:
 * Let Parliament Jone [nickname of a woman acting as an informant for the authorities to identify seditious or unlicensed printing presses] (the Devills windefucker) flie after me if she can; beware Lewis, I have need to mute.
 * 1) * 1648 May 16 – June 2, Parliament-Kite, volume II, page 9; quoted in Gordon Williams, “windfucker”, in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volume III (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-485-11393-8, pages 1540–1541:
 * Let Parliament Jone [nickname of a woman acting as an informant for the authorities to identify seditious or unlicensed printing presses] (the Devills windefucker) flie after me if she can; beware Lewis, I have need to mute.
 * 1) * 1648 May 16 – June 2, Parliament-Kite, volume II, page 9; quoted in Gordon Williams, “windfucker”, in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volume III (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-485-11393-8, pages 1540–1541:
 * Let Parliament Jone [nickname of a woman acting as an informant for the authorities to identify seditious or unlicensed printing presses] (the Devills windefucker) flie after me if she can; beware Lewis, I have need to mute.
 * 1) * 1648 May 16 – June 2, Parliament-Kite, volume II, page 9; quoted in Gordon Williams, “windfucker”, in A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, volume III (Q–Z), London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-485-11393-8, pages 1540–1541:
 * Let Parliament Jone [nickname of a woman acting as an informant for the authorities to identify seditious or unlicensed printing presses] (the Devills windefucker) flie after me if she can; beware Lewis, I have need to mute.