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Definition: Cuckold |
CuckoldNoun1. A man whose wife committed adultery. Verb1. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cuckold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Cuckold \Cuck"old\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Cuckolded; Cuckolding.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cuckold (See Actæon .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CUCKOLD. The husband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds, however, are Christians, as we learn by the following story: An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved him sharply, saying, 'Sirrah, are not you ashamed to call a dog by a Christian's. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cuckolds are sometimes written of as "wearing the horns of a cuckold" or just "wearing the horns". This goes back to an unsubstantiated reference to a tradition in villages of unknown European location where the community gathers to collectively humiliate a man whose wife gives birth to a child recognizably not his own. This is said to have been a parade where the hapless husband is forced to wear antlers on his head as a symbol of his wife’s infidelity. Whether this actually happened or not is irrelevant to the phrase, which survived.
The history of the word is thought to be related to the Cuckoo bird, who is known to put its eggs in another bird's nest. Some think that this points to another hallmark of the cuckold " the raising of a child that is not his own.
Today the term is making a resurgence amongst non-monogamous couples with a dominant female allowed to take on additional partners, and submissive male who is not.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cuckold."
Synonyms: CuckoldSynonyms: betray (v), cheat (v), cheat on (v), wander (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divorce | Widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cuckold |
| English words defined with "cuckold": Cokewold, Cornute, Cornuto, Cornutor, Cuckolded, Cuckolding, Cuckoldize, Cuckoldly, Cuckoldom, Cuckoldry ♦ Hornify ♦ Wittol. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cuckold": ACTEON ♦ BUCK'S FACE ♦ Cuckold King ♦ Freeman of Bucks ♦ HORN MAD ♦ STAY ♦ TUP. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cuckold": Cokewold. (references) |
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Screenplays | Come come now Mr. Barry, I'm a man who would rather be known as a cuckold than a fool (Barry Lyndon; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
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| "Cuckold" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Cuckold" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cuckold | 2,935 | cuckold man | 37 |
cuckold story | 633 | cc cuckold | 36 |
cuckold husband | 559 | cuckold interracial wife | 35 |
interracial cuckold | 380 | fem dom cuckold | 34 |
cuckold forum | 371 | cuckold sex story | 33 |
cuckold housewife | 357 | cuckold picture | 33 |
cuckold group sex | 354 | cartoon cuckold | 33 |
cuckold sex | 204 | cuckold movie | 29 |
cuckold upskirt | 177 | cuckold free | 28 |
cuckold milf | 163 | free cuckold husband story | 27 |
cuckold free story | 157 | cuckold hubby | 26 |
cuckold husband story | 144 | cuckold wife story | 25 |
cuckold wife | 104 | slut wife cuckold story | 23 |
cuckold humiliation | 72 | cuckold lifestyle | 23 |
interracial cuckold story | 62 | cuckold husband pic | 22 |
cuckold sissy | 60 | cuckold slave | 22 |
husband humiliation cuckold | 56 | cuckold wimp | 20 |
cuckold pic | 50 | slut wife cuckold | 19 |
cream cuckold pie | 47 | cuckold husband wimp | 19 |
cuckold video | 45 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cuckold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë brirë, brinar. (various references) | |
Arabic | مكعباني شبيه بالمكعب (cuboid). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам рога на (horn), рогоносец, измамен съпруг. (various references) | |
Czech | paroháè. (various references) | |
Farsi | جاکشی وبیغیرتی کردن , شوهرزن زانیه . (various references) | |
French | mari trompé. (various references) | |
German | Hahnerei. (various references) | |
Greek | κερατώνω, κερατάσ, σύζηγοσ απίστου γυναικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קר ן, בעל קר ים (horned). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megcsalt férj, felszarvazott férj. (various references) | |
Italian | becco (beak, bill, billygoat, lip, Neb, nozzle, rostrum, spout). (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo cuckolt jeh, cuckolt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckoldcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corno (hooter, horn, klaxon), cometer adultério, marido traído, homem cornudo. (various references) | |
Romanian | soţ înşelat, încornorat (cuckolded, horned, whopping), încornora (horn), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references) | |
Russian | рогоносец, наставлять рога/ рогоносец, муж-рогоносец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rogonja, prevareni muž. (various references) | |
Spanish | cornudo (tobacco hornworm, tomato worm). (various references) | |
Swedish | hanrej. (various references) | |
Turkish | boynuzlu koca, boynuzlamak (butt, Gore, horn), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), aldatılan erkek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рогоносець, наставляти роги, зраджувати чоловіка, зраджений чоловік. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | anh ch"ng bị cắm sừng. (various references) | |
Welsh | cwcwalltu, cwcwallt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cuckold": cuckolded, cuckolding, cuckoldries, cuckoldry, cuckolds. (additional references) | |
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"Cuckold" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cockold, couckold, cuccold, cuchold, cuckcold, cuckel, cuckhold, cucnold, cucold, cukcold, kuckold. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-k-l-o-u" | |
-2 letters: clock, cloud, cluck, could. | |
-3 letters: clod, cold, dock, duck, kudo, lock, loud, luck. | |
-4 letters: cod, col, cud, doc, dol, duo, old, oud, udo. | |
-5 letters: do, lo, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-k-l-o-u" | |
+1 letter: cuckolds. | |
+2 letters: cuckolded, cuckoldry. | |
+3 letters: cuckolding. | |
+4 letters: cuckoldries. | |
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