Cuckold

A cuckold is a person, usually a man, with a sexually unfaithful partner, typically the man's wife. There are connotations of helplessness and humiliation attributed to the word: implications that the husband is helpless to stop her infidelity, and too cowardly to leave the wife.

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"Cuckold" appears in older texts as a highly insulting and pejorative term.

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Cuckolds are sometimes written of as "wearing the horns of a cuckold" or just "wearing the horns". This goes back to an unsubstantiated reference to a tradition in villages of unknown European location where the community gathers to collectively humiliate a man whose wife gives birth to a child recognizably not his own. This is said to have been a parade where the hapless husband is forced to wear antlers on his head as a symbol of his wife’s infidelity. Whether this actually happened or not is irrelevant to the phrase, which survived.

Man: :This article concerns man in the sense of "human male". For other meanings of man see Man (disambiguation)....

Unfaithful: Unfaithful may refer to:...

Wife: A wife is a female partner in a marriage. The rights and obligations of the wife regarding her spouse and others, and her status in the community and in law, varies between cultures and has varied over time....