cornutor
cornutor noun: one who makes another person into a cuckold.
Noun
cornutor (plural cornutors)
- One who makes another person into a cuckold.
- Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […]1659, Robert Heath, “Why the Cornutee loves the Cornutor?”, in Paradoxical Assertions and Philosophical Problems Full of Delight and Recreation for all Ladies and Youthful Fancie
- He that thinks every man is his wife's suitor, / Defiles his bed, and proves his own cornutor.c. 1680, Thomas Jordan, “On a Citizen that was so unreasonably jealous of his wife, that he durst not trust her with the neerest in blood of her own kindred”, in The Muses Melody in a Consort of...
- Synonyms:
- cuckolder
Synonyms of cornutor
Forms of cornutor
| plural | cornutors |
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Origin of cornutor
From Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus, from cornu. By surface analysis, cornute + -or.
Questions about cornutor
- What does cornutor mean?
- Cornutor means one who makes another person into a cuckold.
- What part of speech is cornutor?
- Cornutor is a noun.
- What is the plural of cornutor?
- The plural of cornutor is cornutors.
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