1 March 2017
cuckold
[kuhk-uh ld]
noun
1. the husband of an unfaithful wife.
verb (used with object)
2. to make a cuckold of (a husband).
Origin of cuckold
Middle English, Anglo-French, Middle French
1200-1250; Middle English cukeweld, later cok (k) ewold, cukwold < Anglo-French *cucuald (compare Middle French cucuault), equivalent to Old French cocu cuckoo + -ald, -alt pejorative suffix (see ribald ); apparently orig. applied to an adulterer, in allusion to the cuckoo’s habit of laying its eggs in other birds’ nests
Related forms
cuckoldly, adverb
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Examples from the Web for cuckold
Contemporary Examples
By definition, of course, a cuckold is the “husband of an adulteress.”
The Cuckolding Fetish: When Your Wife’s Cheating Turns You On
Aurora Snow
February 21, 2014
Historical Examples
Speak, I say, have you considered what it is to cuckold your husband?
The Comedies of William Congreve
William Congreve
Right; and who so fit to make a man a cuckold, as hee that keepes his wife?
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder
William Kemp
Monogamy introduces two permanent social characters that were formerly unknown: the standing lover of the wife and the cuckold.
The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State
Frederick Engels
I knew what I was about, and did not fear to be made a cuckold in spite of myself.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Leuillet, in his turn, burst out laughing at the notion that he might have made a cuckold of Souris.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
Guy de Maupassant
And while the Colonel laughed at the cuckold, the cuckold laughed at the dupe.
Eugene Aram, Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Then I may be a cuckold still for aught I know: what will become of me?
Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway
A little more or a little less will make him no more of a cuckold !
Brother Jacques (Novels of Paul de Kock, Volume XVII)
Charles Paul de Kock
Whether wouldst thou be jealous without cause, or be a cuckold and know nothing of it?
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.
Francois Rabelais
Anagram
cluck do
cod luck
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On this day
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1 March 1981 – Bobby Sands, member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a hunger strike at HM Prison Maze, Dublin. He was protesting certain conditions in prison. During the strike he was elected as a Member of Parliament. He died after 65 days.