cuckold
Other forms: cuckolds; cuckolded; cuckolding
A cuckold is a man who has been betrayed by his wife. If your wife cuckolds you, she is cheating on you with a different man.
This is an old-fashioned word you can find in many Shakespeare plays, though cuckolding is certainly older than Shakespeare and will always exist as long as there are marriages. A man can't cuckold a woman: only a wife can cuckold her husband. By sleeping with another man, she makes her husband a cuckold.
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a man whose wife committed adulterytypes:wittolan archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates ittype of:
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be unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
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