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Man whose wife has been adulterous
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cuckold
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because I made a cuckold of him? ▪ Given what he does for a living, Bill is no innocent cuckold . ▪ Horned gods are by definition cuckold gods. ▪ Most prominent amongst these are terms that mock the miller as an impotent and ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowfish \Cow"fish`\ (kou"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The grampus. A California dolphin ( Tursiops Gillii ). A marine plectognath fish ( Ostracoin quadricorne , and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold , coffer ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife. In evolutionary biology, the term is also applied to males who are unwittingly investing parental effort in offspring that are not genetically their own.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man whose wife committed adultery v. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on , cheat , betray , wander ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from cuckold (n.). Related: Cuckolded ; cuckolding .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact. 2 A West Indian plectognath fish, (taxlink Rhinesomus genus noshow=1). 3 The cowfish, (taxlink Acanthostracion quadricornis species noshow=1) and allied ...
Usage examples of cuckold.
Look, Lackwit hath learned that he truly lacks wit, and that Amoroso and Belinda are about to sing their love duet to signify that the play is over, and that he was cuckolded before he even wed his Mistress and made her wife!
Then this fine curber of phantasies got back to his house in the morning by the time Taschereau came to invite him to spend the day at La Grenadiere, and the cuckold always found the priest asleep in his bed.
The twelve-guinea one, which I had reserved for the last, as a choice morsel, pleased me the least of all, and I did not care to cuckold the noble duke who kept her.
I knew what I was about, and did not fear to be made a cuckold in spite of myself.
Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable .
Well, it came out in evidence that Blore made a great to-do about being a cuckold.
But put yourself in my position: landless, moneyless, powerless, jobless, and cuckolded.
Now he was a clown, a cuckold, despised by his associates and, no doubt, being reappraised by his employers.
Maura Ryan not only cuckolded by a Scally, but he had fucked the boys up as well.
This somehow gave rise to the notion, then, that a wittol was a cuckold who knew his own condition.
Nonetheless, if we put it about that her daughter is baseborn and Stannis a cuckold, well.
In that time, he had confronted a wide range of threats, from millennialist martyrs and Third-World gunrunners to cuckolded husbands and corporate hackers.
I knew what I was about, and did not fear to be made a cuckold in spite of myself.
Saint Anne, As I will bear away thy newe pan For debte, which thou owest me of old, -- When that thou madest thine husband cuckold, -- I paid at home for thy correction.
Swiss cuckolds, furtive near-Eastern medical attaches, zaftig print-journalists: he felt ready for anything.