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noun
A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: lifestyle, sexuality
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noun
A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Synonym of fringed filefish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: fringed filefish
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verb
To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by committing adultery, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: cuck, horn, hornify, put horns on, behorn, cuckold, cuckoldize, two-time
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noun
a man whose wife committed adultery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: husband, hubby, married man
Narrower terms: wittol
verb
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cheat on, cheat, betray, wander
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Narrower terms: two-time, play around, fool around
History
From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuault; a compound of cucu (“cuckoo”) and Old French -auld. The word references the behavior of cuckoo birds where they lay their eggs in another bird’s nest. Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo's call, or from Latin cucūlus. Latin cucūlus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus) and the diminutive suffix -ulus. Old French -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“wielder, ruler, leader”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaz (compare German Gewalt, from the related *waldą (“power, might”)), from *waldaną (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2welh1- (“to be strong; to rule”). Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.
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