Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities of a cuckold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking.
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- adverb Like or as a
cuckold . - adjective Possessing the qualities of a
cuckold .
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Examples
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That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes and the rams together and to offer to get your living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram, out of all reasonable match.
As You Like It 2004
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I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogues coffer; and theres my harvest-home.
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I wish myself back again, as you told me I should, but not because a thin, death-doing, pestiferous north-east wind blows in a line directly from Crazy Castle turret fresh upon me in this cuckoldly retreat (for I value the north-east wind and all its powers not a straw), but the transition from rapid motion to absolute rest was too violent.
Sterne Traill, H D 1882
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I charged with my troop abreast with Prince Rupert, and when, as you may have heard, we were both beaten off by those cuckoldly hinds the Trained
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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Peveril of the Peak! down with Bridgenorth, and all upstart cuckoldly
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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I charged with my troop abreast with Prince Rupert, and when, as you may have heard, we were both beaten off by those cuckoldly hinds the
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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"Where be these cuckoldly Roundheads," cried some.
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes and the rams together and to offer to get your living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram, out of all reasonable match.
As You Like It 1599
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I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer; and there's my harvest-home.
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Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for it, Master Brook.
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