cu
ckold
Plural
cuckolds
1
a man whose partner is unfaithful, often implying he is weak or humiliated
- He learned he had become a cuckold after overhearing his wife's late-night phone calls.
- In the play, the jealous husband is mocked as a helpless cuckold.
- Family gossip labeled him a cuckold when rumors of her affair spread through town.
- He refused to stay at the dinner table after discovering he was a cuckold.
- Shakespeare often cast cuckolds as figures of ridicule and sympathy alike.