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cuckolder

noun

Etymology

From cuckold + -er.

  1. derived from *h₂welh₁-✻
  2. derived from *waldaz✻
  3. derived from *-wald✻
  4. derived from cucūlus
  5. derived from -auld
  6. derived from cucuault
  7. inherited from cokolde
  8. suffixed as cuckolder — “cuckold + er”

Definitions

  1. A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an…

    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 commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds.

    • Gascoigne, Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) 78 has a teasing passage in which cuckold and cuckolder are out hunting.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA