cuckoldry
nounEtymology
Definitions
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?
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.
Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in…
Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
The neighborhood
- synonymadultery
- synonymcheating
- synonymcuckoldry
- synonyminfidelity
- synonympromiscuity
- synonymtwo-timing
- synonymunfaithfulness
- antonymfidelity
- antonymfaithfulness
- neighborcuckoldize
- neighborcuckold
- neighborcuckquean
- neighborcuckolder
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cuckoldry. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cuckoldry. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at cuckoldry
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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