cuckoldry
nounEtymology From cuckold + -ry.
1
An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
- How many such-like cuckoldries are there in histories, procured by the Gods against seely mortall men?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
2
The state of being a cuckold.
- By the end of 2017, it was clear that Homo politicus, like his allies in Hollywood and the media, tends not towards cuckoldry but a 21st-century equivalent of the droit du seigneur.2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 10 Feb 2022:
- Synonyms
- adultery, cheating, cuckoldry, infidelity, promiscuity, two-timing, unfaithfulness
- Antonyms
- fidelity, faithfulness
- Derived terms
- cuckoldize
- Related terms
- cuckoldize, cuckold, cuckquean, cuckolder