Found 2 items, similar to Cuckold.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cuckold
cuckold
n : a man whose wife committed adultery
v : be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;
“She
cheats on her husband”;
“Might her husband be wandering?”
[syn:
cheat on,
cheat,
betray,
wander]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cuckold
Cuckold
\Cuck"old\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Cuckolded; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Cuckolding.]
To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or
by her becoming an adulteress. --Shak.
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Cuckold
\Cuck"old\ (k?k"?ld), n. [OE. kukeweld, cokewold,
cokold, fr. OF. coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being
modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see
Herald); cf. F. cocu
a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo.
The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays
her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.]
1. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an
adulteress. --Shak.
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2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A West Indian plectognath fish (
Ostracion triqueter
).
(b) The cowfish.
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