cuckold

== English == === Alternative forms === cuckhold (obsolete) === Etymology === From 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. Old French -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“wielder, ruler, leader”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaz (compare German Gewalt, from the related *waldą (“power, might”)), from *waldaną (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong; to rule”). Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌ.kəʊld/, /ˈkʌ.kəld/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈkʌ.koʊld/, /ˈkʌ.kəld/ Hyphenation: cuck‧old === Noun === cuckold (plural cuckolds) (sexuality) A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cuckold Coordinate terms: cuckquean; see also Thesaurus:cuckquean 1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book, Chapter 36 If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cuckold. (paraphilia) A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter. The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species. Synonym of fringed filefish. ==== Synonyms ==== (Rhinesomus triqueter): Ostracion triqueter, smooth trunkfish ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Verb === 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 committing adultery, or by seducing their partner or spouse. Synonyms: cuck, horn, hornify, put horns on; see also Thesaurus:cuckoldize ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === cuckold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia smooth trunkfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia scrawled cowfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia