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  • n  a man whose wife committed adultery
  • v  be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

  • Now handless, the cuckold finds the real father and tricks him into raping his own daughter.
  • And what prompted him to compare a German member of the European Parliament to a Nazi prison guard, or to flash two fingers of the cuckold behind the head of the Spanish .
  • The umbrella gesture followed the cuckold "corna" (horns) sign pinky and forefinger behind the head he performed on the Spanish foreign minister in 2002, and the flashing .
Quotes

  • Robert Hughes in New York Times
    It is a hilarious section ("I was a cuckold going cuckoo," Mr. Hughes writes) and it makes the memoir's title, "Things I Didn't Know," seem particularly apt.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer in NPR
    It's he who has no wife who is no cuckold,Chaucer writes in the latter half of the fourteenth century, crisply distilling one of the most per sis tent themes in Western culture since the start of history.

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