Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man whose wife is unfaithful.
- transitive verb To make a cuckold of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dishonor by adultery: said of a wife or her paramour.
- noun A corrupt form of
cockle . - noun A man whose wife is false to him; the husband of an adulteress.
- noun A book-name of the cow-bird, Molothrus ater; so called from its parasitic and polygamous habits.
- noun A name of the cow-fish, Ostracion quadricore: apparently so called from its horns. See
cow-fish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
- noun A West Indian plectognath fish (
Ostracion triqueter ). - noun The cowfish.
- transitive verb To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
man married to anunfaithful wife , especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact. - verb transitive To make a cuckold of someone by being
unfaithful , or byseducing hiswife .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- noun a man whose wife committed adultery
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term "cuckold" comes from the Middle English cokewold and refers to a cuckoo hen who lays her eggs in another's nest.
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Someone explain to the troll that being her cuckold is not something to be boasting about.
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Four old pudgepots avenging a cuckold is the worst kind of testosterone-laced male ego delusion masquerading as high drama that it has ever been my misfortune to suffer through.
No Upside of Anger 2010
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The allegory of a cuckold is a man with horns, usually that of a deer.
Marriage a la Mode, Part 4: The Toilette Heather Carroll 2008
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Or cuckolds; for your cuckold is your most terrible tickler of lechery.
The White Devil 2007
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Or cuckolds; for your cuckold is your most terrible tickler of lechery.
The White Devil 2007
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There will you find that you shall never be a cuckold, that is to say, your wife shall never be
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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She has inflicted upon him the shame of being labelled a cuckold, and thus to be 'A fixed figure for the time of scorn/To point his slow and moving finger at '.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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There will you find that you shall never be a cuckold, that is to say, your wife shall never be
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He was able to hurt none but himself; by transferring the same ridicule from one to another, he reduced himself to the insignificance of his own magpie, who from his cage calls cuckold at a venture.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891
asativum commented on the word cuckold
Er. Wierdnet's no. 2 definition might worry some otherwise complacent men out there.
June 14, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word cuckold
WeirdNet seems to (mis)some kind of classification hierarchy that makes it think, since all cuckolds are husbands, a definition of 'husband' is somehow helpful.
June 14, 2008
asativum commented on the word cuckold
Isn't there a word for applying the name of a larger classification to a part, or does it only go the other way around?
June 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word cuckold
Cornuto (/cornuta) works both ways in Italian.
June 14, 2008