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English
Ca. 1815 French satire on cuckoldry, which shows both men and women wearing horns.
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English cokolde , cokewold , cockewold , kukwald , kukeweld , from Old French cucuault ; a compound of cucu ( “ cuckoo ” ) (some varieties of the cuckoo bird lay their eggs in another’s nest) and Old French -auld . Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo 's call, or from Latin cucūlus . Latin cucūlus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus ) and the diminutive suffix -ulus .
Old French -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare English Harold , for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald ( “ wielder, ruler, leader ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *waldaz (compare German Gewalt , from the related *waldą ( “ power, might ” ) ), from *waldaną ( “ to rule ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- ( “ to be strong; to rule ” ) .
Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald . First known use of the verb form is 1589.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -əʊld
( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˈkʌ.kəʊld/ , /ˈkʌ.kəld/
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( US ) IPA (key ) : /ˈkʌ.koʊld/ , /ˈkʌ.kəld/
Noun
cuckold (plural cuckolds )
A man married to an unfaithful wife , especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cuckold
Coordinate terms: cuckquean ; see also Thesaurus:cuckquean
1546 , François Rabelais , The Third Book , Chapter 36
If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold .
2001 , Goran V. Stanivukovic, Ovid and the Renaissance Body , page 178 :In the early English drama, no play better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willing cuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuckold .
A man who is paraphilically attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner .
A West Indian plectognath fish , Rhinesomus triqueter .
The scrawled cowfish , Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
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Translations
man married to an unfaithful wife
Albanian: brinar (sq) m
Arabic: دَيُّوث (ar) m ( dayyūṯ )
Azerbaijani:
Abjad: پيصر ( peisar ) , قرمساق ( qurumsāq ) , دیوث ( dæyyūs )
Roman: peysər , oğraş (az) , qurumsaq , dəyyus
Belarusian: рагано́сец m ( rahanósjec ) , рага́ты ( raháty )
Breton: dogan (br)
Bulgarian: рогоно́сец (bg) m ( rogonósec )
Catalan: cornut m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 烏龜 / 乌龟 (zh) ( wūguī ) , 王八 (zh) ( wángba )
Corsican: curnutu
Czech: paroháč (cs) m
Danish: hanrej c
Dutch: hoorndrager (nl) m
Esperanto: kokrito
Estonian: sarvekandja
Finnish: aisankannattaja (fi)
French: cocu (fr) m , cornard (fr) m
Galician: cornudo m
German: Gehörnter m , Hahnrei (de) m , Hornträger m
Greek: κερατάς (el) m ( keratás )
Hebrew: קַרְנָן (he) m ( karnán ) ( "horned one" )
Hungarian: felszarvazott (hu)
Icelandic: kokkáll (is) m
Interlingua: cucu
Italian: cornuto (it) m , becco (it) m
Japanese: コキュー ( kokyū ) , コキュ ( kokyu )
Korean: 오쟁이진 남편 ( ojaeng'ijin nampyeon )
Macedonian: рогоносец m ( rogonosec )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hanrei (no) m
Ottoman Turkish: پزونك ( päzäväng ) , قورومساق ( qūrūmsāq ) , ڪراته ( kérātá ) , كیدی ( gidi ) , قلتبان ( qultabān ) , بوینوزلی ( būynūzlu ) , دیوث ( deyyūs )
Persian: جاکش (fa) ( jâkeš ) , دیوث (fa) ( dayyus )
Polish: rogacz (pl) m
Portuguese: corno (pt) m , chifrudo (pt) m , cabrão (pt) m
Romanian: încornorat (ro) m
Russian: рогоно́сец (ru) m ( rogonósec , literally “ horn carrier ” ) , рога́тый (ru) m ( rogátyj ) , куко́лд (ru) m ( kukóld ) ( neologism ) , олень (ru) ( olenʹ , literally “ deer ” )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ро́гоња m
Roman: rógonja (sh) m
Sicilian: cuinnutu (scn) m
Slovak: paroháč m
Spanish: cornudo (es) m
Swedish: hanrej (sv) c
Turkish: ( vulgar ) kavat (tr) , boynuzlu (tr) , ( obsolete ) deyyus (tr)
Ukrainian: рогоно́сець m ( rohonósecʹ ) , рога́тий m ( rohátyj )
Vietnamese: cắm sừng (vi)
Volapük: koküfäb
See also
Verb
cuckold (third-person singular simple present cuckolds , present participle cuckolding , simple past and past participle cuckolded )
( transitive ) To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful , or by seducing their partner or spouse .
Synonyms: cuck , horn , hornify , put horns on ; see also Thesaurus:cuckoldize
2008 , Jeph Jacques , Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic :Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.
Translations
make a cuckold
Breton: doganiñ (br)
Dutch: bedriegen (nl) ( wife ) , onder de kluiten schieten , de hoorns opzetten
Esperanto: kokri
Finnish: tehdä jostakusta aisankannattaja
French: cocufier (fr)
German: hörnen (de)
Greek: κερατώνω (el) ( keratóno )
Hungarian: felszarvaz (hu)
Italian: mettere le corna , cornificare (it)
Japanese: 不義をする ( ふぎをする, fugi o suru )
Polish: przyprawić rogi (pl)
Portuguese: chifrar (pt) , cornear (pt) , pôr chifres em , trair (pt) ( to cheat on )
Russian: наста́вить рога́ (ru) ( nastávitʹ rogá )
Serbo-Croatian: набити рогове , ( nabiti rogove )
Sicilian: fari li corna
Slovak: nasadiť parohy
Spanish: poner los cuernos (es) , poner los cachos (es) , poner el gorro (es) , pegar los tarros , poner las guampas , sanchear
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