Definitions for cuckold

cuckold cuck·old

Spelling: [kuhk-uh ld]
IPA: /ˈkʌk əld/

Cuckold is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in cuckold (ccdklou).

Definitions for cuckold

noun

  1. the husband of an unfaithful wife.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make a cuckold of (a husband).

Origin of cuckold

1200-50; Middle English cukeweld, later cok(k)ewold, cukwold Anglo-French *cucuald (compare Middle French cucuault), equivalent to Old French cocu cuckoo + -ald, -a

Examples for cuckold

I knew what I was about, and did not fear to be made a cuckold in spite of myself.

This time, my dear fellow, it is impossible for me to doubt it; I am a cuckold!

Never fear, wench, said he, I 've no mind to marry and be cuckold.

Damned dog, to dare to presume to make a cuckold of a knight!

How long was she going to bother herself in her cuckold's behalf?

Right; and who so fit to make a man a cuckold, as hee that keepes his wife?

Speak, I say, have you considered what it is to cuckold your husband?

A little more or a little less will make him no more of a cuckold!

And while the Colonel laughed at the cuckold, the cuckold laughed at the dupe.

By definition, of course, a cuckold is the “husband of an adulteress.”

Word Value for cuckold
Scrable

16

Words with friends

20

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