cuckold
To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by committing adultery, or by seducing their…To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by committing adultery, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
» Has Mary cuckolded Tom?
rul · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTo make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by committing adultery, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
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наста́вить рога́nastávitʹ rogá
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
Examples
9 sentencesHas Mary cuckolded Tom?
You are a cuckold.
The baroness cuckolded the baron.
deDie Freifrau setzte dem Freiherrn Hörner auf. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR
Don’t cut the cuckold’s cock.
A cuckold is a person who shares a bosom with at least one other person.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuaFrom 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.
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Forms
cuckolds, cuckolding, cuckolded, cuckoldedSynonyms
11 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.