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To: Fledermaus
cuck·old
ˈkəkəld,-ō
noun (archaic)
1.
the husband of an adulteress, often regarded as an object of derision.
verb
1.
(of a man) make (another man) a cuckold by having a sexual relationship with his wife.

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23 posted on 07/29/2015 12:39:55 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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25 posted on 07/29/2015 12:41:00 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide.)
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cuckold

Not for family-friendly reading.

27 posted on 07/29/2015 12:43:18 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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Yep, that’s how Merriam Webster, Oxford and Cambridge define it. Not sure why anyone would think the Post got it wrong.


31 posted on 07/29/2015 2:23:08 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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The term "cuckold" as I've seen it used in the past goes beyond just "a man whose wife was unfaithful". It's "a man whose supposed children are not really biologically his".

History of the term:

Cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to the alleged habit of the female in changing its mate frequently and authentic (in some species) practice of laying its eggs in other nests within its community.[2][3] The association is common in medieval folklore, literature, and iconography. The original Middle English was "kukewold". It was derived from Middle English "cuccault", which was made up of "cucu" (Old French for the cuckoo bird itself) plus the pejorative suffix – "ault", indicating the named person was being taken advantage of as by a cuckoo bird.

English usage first appears about 1250 in the satirical and polemical poem "The Owl and the Nightingale" (l. 1544). The term was clearly regarded as embarrassingly direct, as evident in John Lydgate's "Fall of Princes" (c. 1440). In the late 14th century, the term also appeared in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale".[3] Shakespeare's poetry often referred to cuckolds, with several of his characters suspecting they had become one.[3]


45 posted on 08/02/2015 4:25:45 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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