cuckold

plural cuckolds · alternative obsolete cuckhold

1. lifestyleA man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.

   If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold.

   1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book, Chapter 36

   3 more examples

   You see, it happened that two lieutenantesses were fighting, because their husbands had made cuckolds of them ...

   1994, An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777-1992, page 183

   In the early English drama, no play better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willing cuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).

   2001, Goran V. Stanivukovic, Ovid and the Renaissance Body, page 178

   Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.

   2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 10 Feb 2022

2. A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
3. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.

   Synonyms: Ostracion triqueter, smooth trunkfish

4. The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
5. Synonym of fringed filefish.

   Synonyms: fringed filefish

present singular third person cuckolds · participle present cuckolding · participle past cuckolded · past cuckolded · alternative obsolete cuckhold

1. transitiveTo make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by committing adultery, or by seducing their partner or spouse.

   Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.

   2008, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic

   2 more examples

   "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."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 173

   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 was cuckolded 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).

   1992, Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, revised edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88

   Synonyms: cuck, horn, hornify, put horns on, behorn, cuckoldize, cuck, horn