to give horns to, to graft, plant horns on: to cuckold.
| 单词 | θ179905 |
| 释义 | society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife > symbol of (7) to give horns to1430 to give horns to, to graft, plant horns on: to cuckold. ox feather1615 = bull's feather n. at bull, n.1 compounds 3b. knob1658 The bud or rudiment of a ruminant's horn or antler. Now historical and rare. shoeing-horn1664 A cuckold's horn: see horn, n. 7. In quot. 1664 attributive. (Cf. shoehorn, v. 1.) Sussex crest1681 a name for the cuckold's ‘horn’. Obsolete. horny coronet1688 humorously put for ‘cuckold's horns’. Obsolete. bull's feather1704 a horn, the mark of cuckoldry. |
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