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UK
/kˈʌkəʊld/
]
VERB
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be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
She cheats on her husband
Might her husband be wandering?
NOUN
- a man whose wife committed adultery
How To Use cuckold In A Sentence
- Several studies have shown that yearling passerines are more frequently cuckolded by older males than vice versa.
- Alone, Iago speaks of his hatred of Othello and a rumour that the Moor has cuckolded him, and hatches a plan to persuade Othello that his wife is unfaithful with Cassio.
- Italian women who stay at home and work while their husbands ogle beauties on the beaches are increasingly cuckolding their spouses.
- Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
- While the young drifter proves he's not so heartless when he saves one of the kids from drowning, he is certainly not above cuckolding Les.
- Only the old woman knew well the crucible, and the great work -- the one was cuckoldom, and the other the private property of Madame Advocate. Droll Stories — Volume 2
- The lord of cuckoldom and its surrounding lands, who is a strange lord, managed things so well, that madame was only conversing with her lord lover at the time that her lord spouse was talking to the constable and the king; at which he was pleased, and so was his wife -- a case of concord rare in matrimony. Droll Stories — Volume 3
- Thereupon the good dyer staggered by the paternal majesty of cuckoldom, and perhaps also by the fire of his wife's eyes, let the sword fall upon the foot of the hunchback, who had followed him, and thus killed him. Droll Stories — Volume 1
- Leufroid, who called him his crony, and would have done anything for him, the Venetian conceived the idea of getting rid of his friend by revealing to the king the mystery of his cuckoldom, and showing him the source of the queen's happiness, not doubting for a moment but that he would commence by depriving Monsoreau of his head, according to a practice common in Sicily under similar circumstances. Droll Stories — Volume 3
- No. Well then, neither do you know that cuckoldom is not Droll Stories — Volume 1