windsucker

Etymology


. Where the bird or term of abuse sense is concerned, some believe the word is a recent bowdlerization of ; however, it appears since at least the 17th century. See the etymology of.

Noun

 * 1) A horse with the habit of windsucking.
 * 2) The common kestrel.
 * 3) * 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; republished in Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare (Collection of British Authors; 1041), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869, , page 333:
 * Yes, and a goshawk was his father, for aught we know; for I am sure his mother was a wind-sucker.
 * In the 1662 (1st) edition, the word is indicated as.
 * 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; republished in Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare (Collection of British Authors; 1041), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1869, , page 333:
 * Yes, and a goshawk was his father, for aught we know; for I am sure his mother was a wind-sucker.
 * In the 1662 (1st) edition, the word is indicated as.
 * In the 1662 (1st) edition, the word is indicated as.