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cuckoldries

cuckoldries is the plural of cuckoldry.

Meaning of cuckoldry

Noun

cuckoldry (countable and uncountable, plural cuckoldries)

  1. An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
    • How many such-like cuckoldries are there in histories, procured by the Gods against seely mortall men?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. The state of being a cuckold.
    • By the end of 2017, it was clear that Homo politicus, like his allies in Hollywood and the media, tends not towards cuckoldry but a 21st-century equivalent of the droit du seigneur.2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 10 Feb 2022
  3. Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.

Questions about cuckoldries

What is cuckoldries the plural of?
Cuckoldries is the plural of cuckoldry.

Words near cuckoldries in the dictionary

  1. cuckoldly
  2. cuckoldom
  3. cuckoldoms
  4. cuckoldress
  5. cuckoldresses
  6. cuckoldries
  7. cuckoldry
  8. cuckolds
  9. cuckoldy
  10. cuckoo
  11. cuckoo bee

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