Etymology : Middle English cokewold
Pronunciation : 'k&-k&ld, -(")kOld
Function : noun
Date : 13th century
1. A cuckold is a married man whose wife has sex with other men. In current usage it sometimes refers to non-married couples in committed relationships as well, although the traditional meaning is a man whose wife is adulterous.
2. husband whose wife is unfaithful. cheat on one's husband, be unfaithful to one's husband. 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.].
3. a man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
4. (zo?l.) (a) a west indian plectognath fish (ostracion triqueter). (b) the cowfish.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.cuckold a man whose wife committed adultery be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "she cheats on her husband"; "might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, betray, wander].
5. A man whose wife is unfaithful; the husband of an adulteress.
6. A West Indian plectognath fish.
7. The cowfish.
8. To make a cuckold of, as a husband, by seducing his wife, or by her becoming an adulteress. a man whose wife committed adultery.
9. 1. A cuckold is a man whose wife is having an affair with another man.
10. If a married woman is having an affair, she and her lover are cuckolding her husband. His wife had cuckolded him. an insulting word for a man whose wife has been having sex with another man (Probably from cucuault, from cucu; CUCKOO). if a wife or her lover cuckold her husband, they have sex with each other.