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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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