cuckolder

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noun

A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nouncuckolder (plural cuckolders)

plural cuckolders

  1. biologyA male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
  2. One who commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds.

    Gascoigne, Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 78 has a teasing passage in which cuckold and cuckolder are out hunting.

    2001, Gordon Williams, A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 277
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    The friends of the respective parties, those of the cuckolder on one side, and those of the cuckoldee on the other side; and the public (as far as play-house audiences are the public) have fairly decided in favour of the cuckolder! What an admirable system of “public instruction”!

    1825 February 5, William Cobbett, “To Mr. Brougham—On Newspaper Government; and on his Education Project”, in Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 53, number 6, page 333

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APA

cuckolder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuckolder

MLA

“cuckolder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuckolder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cuckolder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuckolder.

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