- a man whose spouse has committed adultery, often regarded as an object of scorn
- (transitive) to make a cuckold of
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
cuck•old /ˈkʌkəld/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
v. [~ + object]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- the husband of an unfaithful wife.
v. [~ + object]
- to make a cuckold of (a husband):Queen Guinevere cuckolded her husband, King Arthur.
cuck•old
(kuk′əld),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
cuck′old•ly, adv.
- the husband of an unfaithful wife.
v.t.
- to make a cuckold of (a husband).
- Anglo-French *cucuald (compare Middle French cucuault), equivalent. to Old French cocu cuckoo + -ald, -alt pejorative suffix (see ribald); apparently origin, originally applied to an adulterer, in allusion to the cuckoo's habit of laying its eggs in other birds' nests
- Middle English cukeweld, later cok(k)ewold, cukwold 1200–50
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cuckold /ˈkʌkəld/ n
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