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cuckolders

cuckolders is the plural of cuckolder.

Meaning of cuckolder

Noun

cuckolder (plural cuckolders)

  1. A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
  2. 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

Questions about cuckolders

What is cuckolders the plural of?
Cuckolders is the plural of cuckolder.

Words near cuckolders in the dictionary

  1. cuckold-makers
  2. cuckolded
  3. cuckoldee
  4. cuckoldees
  5. cuckolder
  6. cuckolders
  7. cuckolding
  8. cuckoldings
  9. cuckoldise
  10. cuckoldize
  11. cuckoldized

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