Meaning of Cuckold | Babel Free

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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