2 entries under this word

Cuckold

Cŭck'old, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. cogul, N. Fr. cocu, a cuckold, Pr. cogul, a cuckoo and cuckold, It. cuculo, cuckoo, from Lat. cuculus, 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.] A man whose wife is false to his bed; the husband of an adulteress. Swift.

Cŭck'old, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CUCKOLDED; p. pr. & vb. n. CUCKOLDING.]

Sense 1. To make a cuckold of, as of a husband by seducing his wife.

Sense 2. To make a cuckold of, as a wife her husband, by criminal conversation with another man.