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Cuckold   Listen
noun
Cuckold  n.  
1.
A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter).
(b)
The cowfish.





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"Cuckold" Quotes from Famous Books



... called out, as soon as he had ordered matters to his mind, saying, 'Harkye, gossip, hear I not my gossip your husband there?' 'Ay, sir,' answered the simpleton; whereupon, 'Then,' said the other, 'come hither.' The cuckold went to him and Fra Rinaldo said to him, 'Take your son by the grace of God whole and well, whereas I deemed but now you would not see him alive at vespers; and look you let make a waxen image of his bigness ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... not done well? What were the honour of the Malatesti, With such a living slander fixed to it? Cripple! that's something—cuckold! that is ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker
... being cowed with the superstition of the unlucky Noche Triste. "Tomorrow I shall fight thee, Indian," he answered "not at nighttime, like a thieving coyote." "If thou wert not astride thy horse and out of my reach, thou wouldst not dare say that to me, thou cuckold dupe of the Americans!" sneered the Indian. This insult to my companion angered me, and I demanded a retraction and an apology therefor from the Indian. When the macho flatly refused and repeated the insult in a more aggravating manner, I replied that I feared not ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann
... hae a wife o' my ain, I'll partake wi' naebody; I'll tak cuckold frae nane, I'll gie ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... true of Louise and also untrue of her. While occupying her high position at the Saxon court she was fixed in the determination to make a cuckold of her husband, though Frederick Augustus, while a pumpkin, wasn't fricasseed in snow ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer


Words linked to "Cuckold" :   cozen, wander, two-time, husband, deceive, delude, betray, play around, hubby, wittol


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