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English

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Ca. 1815 French satire on cuckoldry, which shows both men and women wearing horns.

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcokolde,cokewold,cockewold,kukwald,kukeweld, fromOld Frenchcucuault; a compound ofcucu(“cuckoo”) (some varieties of the cuckoo bird lay their eggs in another’s nest) andOld French-auld.Cucu is either a directly derivedonomatopoeic derivative of thecuckoo's call, or fromLatincucūlus.Latincucūlus is a compound of onomatopoeiccucu (compareLate Latincucus) and the diminutive suffix-ulus.

Old French-auld is fromFrankish*-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare EnglishHarold, for instance), a suffixal use ofFrankish*wald(“wielder, ruler, leader”), fromProto-Germanic*waldaz (compareGermanGewalt, from the related*waldą(“power, might”)), from*waldaną(“to rule”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂welh₁-(“to be strong; to rule”).

Appears inMiddle English in noun form circa 1250 ascokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.

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Noun

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cuckold (pluralcuckolds)

  1. Amanmarried to anunfaithfulwife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:cuckold
    Coordinate terms:cuckquean;see alsoThesaurus:cuckquean
    • 1546,François Rabelais,The Third Book, Chapter 36
      If I never marry, I shall never be acuckold.
    • 1994,An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777-1992, page183:
      You see, it happened that two lieutenantesses were fighting, because their husbands had madecuckolds of them ...
    • 2001, Goran V. Stanivukovic,Ovid and the Renaissance Body, page178:
      In the early English drama, no play better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willingcuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).
    • For quotations using this term, seeCitations:cuckold.
  2. A man who isparaphilicallyattracted to oraroused by the sexualinfidelity of apartner.
  3. A West Indianplectognathfish,Rhinesomus triqueter.
  4. Thescrawled cowfish,Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.

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Translations

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man married to an unfaithful wife

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Verb

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cuckold (third-person singular simple presentcuckolds,present participlecuckolding,simple past and past participlecuckolded)

  1. (transitive) To make a cuckold orcuckquean of someone by beingunfaithful, or byseducing their partner orspouse.
    Synonyms:cuck,horn,hornify,put horns on;see alsoThesaurus:cuckoldize
    • 1950,Norman Lindsay,Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page173:
      "Gave her anything she wanted - her own car, her own bank account, a free leg to amuse herself as she pleased. Of course she hated him for it.Cuckolded him, too, naturally."
    • 1992, Amy Richlin,The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, revised edition, Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page88:
      Most of the twelve Caesars were rumored to have been licentious as both adulterers and homosexuals (not that the two were mutually exclusive, as will be seen), and Gaius and Nero were both supposed to have been adulterers, active homosexuals, and pathics. According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar wascuckolded by Clodius (Iul. 6, 74) but was himself so noted an adulterer that Pompey (lul. 50) called him "Aegisthus" (mock epic again); and his foreign affairs were the talk of Rome and of the army (Iul, 49–52).
    • 2008,Jeph Jacques,Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic‎[1]:
      Hey, I would nevercuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.

Derived terms

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Translations

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make a cuckold

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