cuckolder
cuckolder noun: a male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
Noun
cuckolder (plural cuckolders)
- A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
- One who commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds.
- The friends of the respective parties, those of the cuckolder on one side, and those of the cuckoldee on the other side; and the public (as far as play-house audiences are the public) have fairly decided in favour of the cuckolder! What an admirable system of “public instruction”!1825 February 5, William Cobbett, “To Mr. Brougham—On Newspaper Government; and on his Education Project”, in Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 53, number 6, page 333
- Gascoigne, Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 78 has a teasing passage in which cuckold and cuckolder are out hunting.2001, Gordon Williams, A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 277
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Forms of cuckolder
| plural | cuckolders |
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Origin of cuckolder
From cuckold + -er.
Words formed from cuckolder
Questions about cuckolder
- What does cuckolder mean?
- Cuckolder means a male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
- What part of speech is cuckolder?
- Cuckolder is a noun.
- What is the plural of cuckolder?
- The plural of cuckolder is cuckolders.
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