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Cuckold   Listen
noun
Cuckold  n.  
1.
A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
(b)
The cowfish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cuckold" Quotes from Famous Books



... Kirkman may be likened to the outline or profile of Mr. Mantalini's early loves: it is either no authority at all, or at best it is a "demd" authority. The same swindler who assigned to Webster and Rowley the authorship of "A Cure for a Cuckold" assigned to Shakespeare and Rowley the authorship of an infinitely inferior play—a play of which German sagacity has discovered that "none of Rowley's other works are equal to this." Assuredly they are not—in utter stolidity of platitude and absolute impotence ...
— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... Head. The boy who brought the test mantle of fidelity to king Arthur's court drew a wand three times across a boar's head, and said, "There's never a cuckold who can carve that head of brawn." Knight after knight made the attempt, but only sir Cradock ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... true of Louise and also untrue of her. While occupying her high position at the Saxon court she was fixed in the determination to make a cuckold of her husband, though Frederick Augustus, while a pumpkin, wasn't fricasseed in snow ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer

... the nearby thoroughfare of Cheapside. The Cornhill house was once kept by a man named Dun, and the story goes that one day when he was in the room with some witty gallants, one of them, who had been too familiar with the host's wife, exclaimed, "I'll lay five pounds there's a cuckold in this company." To which another immediately rejoined, ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley



Words linked to "Cuckold" :   husband, play around, betray, wittol, lead on, wander, deceive, cheat, cheat on, delude



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