cornuton.
Obsolete or archaic.
A cuckold.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife
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cornutoc1430
unicorn1509
hoddypolla1529
summer bird1541
Actaeon1567
knight of the forked order1586
Vulcanian1598
hoddy-doddy1601
becco1604
ram-head1605
cornute1608
horn-stock1611
skimmington1623
horn-heada1640
tup1652
half-moon1659
cuck1706
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xxiii. 60 a As in some lond, cornodo, men them call.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 66 The peaking Curnuto her husband. View more context for this quotation
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. ii. iii. 438 Their husbands banckrupts, if not cornuto's.
1774 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) II. 119 [He] can prove himself a Cornuto.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 42 The husband will not be obliged..to eat a cornuto dinner with his frail spouse, nor share her detestable couch.
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