cuckoldry

English

Etymology

From cuckold +‎ -ry.

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Noun

cuckoldry (countable and uncountable, plural cuckoldries)

  1. An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
  2. The state of being a cuckold.
    • 2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard‎[1], Washington, retrieved 10 February 2022:
      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.
  3. (zoology) Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.

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