1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. cuckold

Find the word definition

What is "cuckold"

Crossword clues for cuckold

cuckold
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cuckold
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 inadequate cuckold.
▪ Sharpe translated the crowd's attention as the derision due to a cuckold and, in that misapprehension, his temper snapped.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the end all there was was the knowledge that you took the job to not be cuckolded by opportunity.
▪ Male birds were cuckolding one another at a tremendous rate.
▪ Sarah Hrdy proposed that silent ovulation helps prevent infanticide because neither the husband nor the lover knows if he has been cuckolded.
▪ Told him he didn't want to accept hospitality from patrons who go round cuckolding their players.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cuckold

Cowfish \Cow"fish`\ (kou"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.)

  1. The grampus.

  2. A California dolphin ( Tursiops Gillii).

  3. A marine plectognath fish ( Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cuckold

mid-13c., kukewald, from Old French cucuault, from cocu (see cuckoo) + pejorative suffix -ault, of Germanic origin. So called from the female bird's alleged habit of changing mates, or her authentic habit of leaving eggs in another bird's nest.\n

\nIn Modern French the identity is more obvious: Coucou for the bird and cocu for the betrayed husband. German Hahnrei (13c.), from Low German, is of obscure origin. The second element seems to be connected to words for "ardent," and suggests perhaps "sexually aggressive hen," with transferal to humans, but Kluge suggests rather a connection to words for "capon" and "castrated." Related: Cuckoldry.

cuckold

1580s, from cuckold (n.). Related: Cuckolded; cuckolding.

Wiktionary
cuckold

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 species. vb. (context transitive English) To make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.

WordNet
cuckold

  1. n. a man whose wife committed adultery

  2. 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]

Wikipedia
Cuckold

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.

Cuckold (novel)

Cuckold is a 1997 book by Indian author Kiran Nagarkar and his third novel. It is a historical novel set in the Rajput kingdom of Mewar, India during the 17th century that follows the life of Maharaj Kumar, a fictional character based upon the real life ruler Thakur Bhojraj.

Cuckold (film)

Cuckold is a 2015 South African drama film directed by Charlie Vundla. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

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.