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cuckhold

cuckhold is the obsolete form of cuckold.

Meaning of cuckold

Noun

cuckold (plural cuckolds)

  1. A man married to an adulterous spouse, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
    • If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold.1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book, Chapter 36
  2. A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
  3. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
    Synonyms:
    Ostracion triqueter, smooth trunkfish
  4. The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
  5. Synonym of fringed filefish.

See all 6 meanings of cuckold

Forms of cuckhold

pluralcuckholds

Questions about cuckhold

What is cuckhold the obsolete form of?
Cuckhold is the obsolete form of cuckold.

Words near cuckhold in the dictionary

  1. cuckcel
  2. cuckcels
  3. cucked
  4. cuckery
  5. Cuckfield
  6. cuckhold
  7. cuckholds
  8. cuckies
  9. cucking
  10. cucking stool
  11. cucking stools

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuckhold (page history and authors); cuckold (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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