cuckolder

noun — 2 senses

cuckolder

noun

Etymology From cuckold + -er.

1

Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.

2

One who commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds.

  • The friends of the respective parties, those of the cuckolder on one side, and those of the cuckoldee on the other side; and the public (as far as play-house audiences are the public) have fairly decided in favour of the cuckolder! What an admirable system of “public instruction”!1825 February 5, William Cobbett, “To Mr. Brougham—On Newspaper Government; and on his Education Project”, in Cobbett's Weekly Register, volume 53, number 6, page 333:
  • Gascoigne, Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 78 has a teasing passage in which cuckold and cuckolder are out hunting.2001, Gordon Williams, A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 277:
Synonyms
cornutor, cuckolder, cuckold-maker, two-timer
Antonyms
cuckold, cuckoldee, cuckquean
Related terms
cuckoldize
Hypernyms
adulterer, person
Hyponyms
cuckoldress, horner

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