Cuckold

Definitions

1. A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
2. A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
3. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
4. The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
5. Synonym of fringed filefish.

Equivalents

Examples

“If I never marry⟳, I shall never be a cuckold.”

“You see⟳, it happened that two lieutenantesses were fighting, because their husbands had made cuckolds of them ...”

“In the early English drama, no play⟳ better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willing cuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).”

“Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.”

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