Cuckold
['kʌk(ə)ld] or ['kʌkold]
Definition
(n.) A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
(n.) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
(n.) The cowfish.
(v. t.) To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress.
Typist: Pearl
Definition
n. a man whose wife has proved unfaithful.—v.t. to wrong (a husband) by unchastity.—v.t. Cuck′oldise to make a cuckold.—adv. Cuck′oldly (Shak.).—ns. Cuck′old-mak′er; Cuck′oldom state of a cuckold: act of adultery; Cuck′oldry adultery.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- Not at all, said Meyler; but, Stonyer being such a fool, there was no resisting the amusement of making him a cuckold. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He wondered how many men had been cuckolded that season in London without knowing it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Manuel