cuckold
verb/ˈkʌkəʊld/
/ˈkʌkəʊld/
(old use)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cuckold | /ˈkʌkəʊld/ /ˈkʌkəʊld/ |
| he / she / it cuckolds | /ˈkʌkəʊldz/ /ˈkʌkəʊldz/ |
| past simple cuckolded | /ˈkʌkəʊldɪd/ /ˈkʌkəʊldɪd/ |
| past participle cuckolded | /ˈkʌkəʊldɪd/ /ˈkʌkəʊldɪd/ |
| -ing form cuckolding | /ˈkʌkəʊldɪŋ/ /ˈkʌkəʊldɪŋ/ |
- cuckold somebody (of a man) to make another man a cuckold by having sex with his wife
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- cuckold somebody (of a woman) to make her husband a cuckold by having sex with another man
Word Originlate Old English, from Old French cucuault, from cucu ‘cuckoo’ (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest). The equivalent words in French and other languages applied to both the bird and the adulterer; cuckold has never been applied to the bird in English.
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