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Word: Cuckold
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English (as cukeweld), from Old French cucuault, from cucu ‘cuckoo’ (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest). The equivalent words in French and other languages applied to both the bird and the adulterer; cuckold has never been applied to the bird in English
ˈkʌk(ə)ld
a man whose wife is sexually unfaithful, regarded as an object of derision
Short Definition:a man whose wife is sexually unfaithful
Examples:- jokes in literature about elderly cuckolds and misers are rife
Word: Cuckold
Speech Type: Verb
ˈkʌk(ə)ld
(of a man) make (another man) a cuckold by having a sexual relationship with his wife
Short Definition:make another man cuckold by having sexual relationship with his wife
Examples:- in the novel Humberto cuckolds his employer
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