cornutor
nounEtymology From Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus, from cornu. By surface analysis, cornute + -or.
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Obsolete One who makes another person into a cuckold.
- Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […]1659, Robert Heath, “Why the Cornutee loves the Cornutor?”, in Paradoxical Assertions and Philosophical Problems Full of Delight and Recreation for all Ladies and Youthful Fancie:
- He that thinks every man is his wife's suitor, / Defiles his bed, and proves his own cornutor.c. 1680, Thomas Jordan, “On a Citizen that was so unreasonably jealous of his wife, that he durst not trust her with the neerest in blood of her own kindred”, in The Muses Melody in a Consort of Poetrie with Diverse Occasionall and Compendious Epistles:
- Synonyms
- cuckolder