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 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
