Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
cuckold
(noun) a man whose wife committed adultery
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cuckold (plural cuckolds)
A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
Synonyms: cornuto, cuck, Thesaurus:cuckold
Coordinate terms: cuckquean, Thesaurus:cuckquean
A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
• (Rhinesomus triqueter): Ostracion triqueter, smooth trunkfish
cuckold (third-person singular simple present cuckolds, present participle cuckolding, simple past and past participle cuckolded)
(transitive) To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
Synonyms: cuck, horn, hornify, Thesaurus:cuckoldize
Source: Wiktionary
Cuck"old (kk"ld), n. Etym: [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.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish.
Cuck"old, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cuckolded;p. pr. & vb. n. Cuckolding.]
Definition: To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.