名詞 cuckold:

1. a man whose wife committed adultery

動(dòng)詞 cuckold:

1. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
   同義詞：cheat on, cheat, betray, wander

cuck.old

n.（名詞）
A man married to an unfaithful wife.
戴綠帽者，烏龜：妻子有外遇的人
v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
cuck.old.ed,cuck.old.ing,cuck.olds
To make a cuckold of.
使…戴綠帽子

來源：
Middle English cokewald
中古英語 cokewald
from Anglo-Norman *cucuald
源自 英法語 *cucuald
from cucu [the cuckoo]
源自 cucu [杜鵑]
from Vulgar Latin *cuccôlus
源自 俗拉丁語 *cuccôlus
from Latin cucôlus
源自 拉丁語 cucôlus

<注釋>In our era of more relaxed sexual mores,the allusion to the cuckoo on which the wordcuckold is based may be little appreciated. The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds,leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters.This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well.Hence in Old French we find the wordcucuault, composed ofcocu, .cuckoo, cuckold,. and the pejorative suffix -ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo.An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman.Middle Englishcokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 250.
在我們這個(gè)性愛很開放的時(shí)代，引用杜鵑這一典故來解釋cuckold 這一詞可能不受歡迎。 某些東半球杜鵑的雌鳥把蛋下在其它鳥類的鳥巢中，由巢中的鳥代為照料它們的幼蟲。這個(gè)寄生傾向也賦予了該雌鳥以不忠實(shí)的象征性名聲。因此我們可以在古法語中找到cucuauct 一詞， 由cocu .杜鵑，戴綠帽者.以及 -ald 這一表輕蔑的后綴組成， 用來稱呼妻子象雌杜鵑一樣離家在外游蕩的男子。這一舊法語單詞的一種早先被采用的形式通過英國(guó)法語被借入中古英語中。中古英語詞語cokewold 是這一現(xiàn)代英語 cuckold 的祖先， 首先被記載在大約寫于250年的一個(gè)作品中