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
6 June 2025
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
