cuckold

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: cheat oncheatbetraywander

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a man whose wife committed adultery

Verb (1)

  1. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage“She cheats on her husband”“Might her husband be wandering?”Synonyms: cheat oncheatbetraywander
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Cowfish \Cow"fish`\ (kou"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zool.) (a) The grampus. (b) A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii). (c) A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish. [1913 Webster]
Cuckold \Cuck"old\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cuckolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Cuckolding.] To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Cuckold \Cuck"old\ (k?k"?ld), n. [OE. kukeweld, cokewold, cokold, fr. OF. coucoul, cucuault, the last syllable being modified by the OE. suffix -wold (see Herald); cf. F. cocu a cuckold, formerly also, a cuckoo, and L. cuculus a cuckoo. The word alludes to the habit of the female cuckoo, who lays her eggs in the nests of other birds, to be hatched by them.]

1.A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish. [1913 Webster]

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