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cornuting

cornuting is the present participle and gerund of cornute.

Meaning of cornute

Verb

cornute (third-person singular simple present cornutes, present participle cornuting, simple past and past participle cornuted)

  1. (transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
    • ‘Will you cooperate with me in cornuting your husband? It's a must!’1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 357

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Questions about cornuting

What is cornuting the present participle and gerund of?
Cornuting is the present participle and gerund of cornute.

Words near cornuting in the dictionary

  1. cornute
  2. cornuted
  3. cornutes
  4. cornutin
  5. cornutine
  6. cornuting
  7. cornuto
  8. cornutoes
  9. cornutor
  10. cornutors
  11. cornutos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornuting (page history and authors); cornute (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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