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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUCKOLD, n. A man whose wife is false to his bed; the husband of an adulteress.
CUCKOLD, v.t.
1. To make a man a cuckold by criminal conversation with his wife; applied to the seducer.
2. To make a husband a cuckold by criminal conversation with another man; applied to the wife.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a man whose wife committed adultery v
1: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English cokewold Date: 13th century a man whose wife is unfaithful • cuckold transitive verb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. the husband of an adulteress. --v.tr. make a cuckold of. Derivatives: cuckoldry n. Etymology: ME cukeweld, cokewold, f. OF cucu cuckoo

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cowfish Cow"fish` (-f?ch`), n. (Zo["o]l.) (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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A West Indian plectognath fish (Ostracion triqueter). (b) The cowfish.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cuckolds, cuckolding, cuckolded) 1. A cuckold is a man whose wife is having an affair with another man. (LITERARY) N-COUNT 2. If a married woman is having an affair, she and her lover are cuckolding her husband. (LITERARY) His wife had cuckolded him. VERB: V n

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

The husband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds, however, are Christians, as we learn by the following story: An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved him sharply, saying, 'Sirrah, are not you ashamed to call a dog by a Christian's name ?' To cuckold the parson; to bed with one's wife before she has been churched.