Talk:Common Kestrel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
Common Kestrel is part of WikiProject Birds, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative and easy-to-use ornithological resource. If you would like to participate, visit the project page. Please do not substitute this template. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. |
|
WikiProject Birds To-do:
|
|
 |
WikiProject Echo has identified Common Kestrel as a foreign language featured article. You may be able to improve this article with information from the Belarusian or German language Wikipedias. |
[edit] Windfucker?
I'm removing this line: " In the 1600s, before the word was considered vulgar, the kestrel was referred to as the "windfucker"."
There is no citation, and when I googled it, the only relevant results I could find seemed to be taken from this article. I smell a prank. If anyone can find valid evidence that this is true, feel free to put it back. Armblast 22:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- A search for "windfucker kestrel" produced, inter alia the following
- windfucker
- Obs.
-
- 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) C3b, Did you euer heare such a Wind-fucker, as this? c1611 CHAPMAN Iliad Pref. A4, There is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers vp and downe, laboriously ingrossing al the air with his luxurious ambition. a1616 BEAUM. & FL. Wit without M. IV. i, Husbands for Whores and Bawdes, away you wind-suckers [sic ed. 1639].
-
- The dates make it clear that it became a "term of opprobrium" very quickly.
- It's certainly not a prank, but needs modifying, jimfbleak 05:18, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
