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cuckold

[ kuhk-uhld ]

noun

  1. the husband of an unfaithful wife.


verb (used with object)

  1. to make a cuckold of (a husband).

cuckold

/ ˈkʌkəld /

noun

  1. a man whose wife has committed adultery, often regarded as an object of scorn


verb

  1. tr to make a cuckold of

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Derived Forms

  • ˈcuckoldry, noun

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Other Words From

  • cuckold·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cuckold1

1200–50; Middle English cukeweld, later cok ( k ) ewold, cukwold < Anglo-French *cucuald (compare Middle French cucuault ), equivalent to Old French cocu cuckoo + -ald, -alt pejorative suffix ( ribald ); apparently originally applied to an adulterer, in allusion to the cuckoo's habit of laying its eggs in other birds' nests

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cuckold1

C13 cukeweld, from Old French cucuault, from cucu cuckoo ; perhaps an allusion to the parasitic cuckoos that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds

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Example Sentences

He made cuckolds of his three best friends, who knew of and tolerated their wives’ infidelities with him.

He is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a Sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England.

By definition, of course, a cuckold is the “husband of an adulteress.”

Mean Cuckold is the highest selling DVD producer and director Glenn King has ever released.

She made her first husband a cuckold, and do you suppose that she has suddenly turned virtuous?

Sfoot, half a quarter of an hour does that; make him a cuckold.

But he smiled, and replied: "As that cuckold of a Forestier?"

The character of cuckold is indelible: who once has it carries it to his grave; the punishment proclaims it more than the fault.

We no less laugh at him who takes pains to prevent it, than at him who is a cuckold and knows it not.

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