Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cuckold
Participle: cuckolded
Gerund: cuckolding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cuckold |
| you | cuckold |
| he;she;it | cuckolds |
| we | cuckold |
| you | cuckold |
| they | cuckold |
Perfect
| I | have cuckolded |
| you | have cuckolded |
| he;she;it | has cuckolded |
| we | have cuckolded |
| you | have cuckolded |
| they | have cuckolded |
Past
| I | cuckolded |
| you | cuckolded |
| he;she;it | cuckolded |
| we | cuckolded |
| you | cuckolded |
| they | cuckolded |
Pluperfect
| I | had cuckolded |
| you | had cuckolded |
| he;she;it | had cuckolded |
| we | had cuckolded |
| you | had cuckolded |
| they | had cuckolded |
Future
| I | will cuckold |
| you | will cuckold |
| he;she;it | will cuckold |
| we | will cuckold |
| you | will cuckold |
| they | will cuckold |
Future Perfect
| I | will have cuckolded |
| you | will have cuckolded |
| he;she;it | will have cuckolded |
| we | will have cuckolded |
| you | will have cuckolded |
| they | will have cuckolded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cuckold |
| you | cuckold |
| he;she;it | cuckold |
| we | cuckold |
| you | cuckold |
| they | cuckold |
Perfect
| I | have cuckolded |
| you | have cuckolded |
| he;she;it | have cuckolded |
| we | have cuckolded |
| you | have cuckolded |
| they | have cuckolded |
Imperfect
| I | cuckolded |
| you | cuckolded |
| he;she;it | cuckolded |
| we | cuckolded |
| you | cuckolded |
| they | cuckolded |
Pluperfect
| I | had cuckolded |
| you | had cuckolded |
| he;she;it | had cuckolded |
| we | had cuckolded |
| you | had cuckolded |
| they | had cuckolded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cuckold |
| you | would cuckold |
| he;she;it | would cuckold |
| we | would cuckold |
| you | would cuckold |
| they | would cuckold |
Perfect
| I | would have cuckolded |
| you | would have cuckolded |
| he;she;it | would have cuckolded |
| we | would have cuckolded |
| you | would have cuckolded |
| they | would have cuckolded |
Imperative
| you | cuckold |
| we | Let's cuckold |
| you | cuckold |
Verbs conjugated like 'cuckold'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cuckold'
cuckoo,
buckle,
cackle,
chuckle,
cockle,
cruckle,
cuck,
cuckoldize,
muckle,
ruckle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuault; a compound of cucu (“cuckoo”) and Old French -auld. The word references the behavior of cuckoo birds where they lay their eggs in another bird’s nest. Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo's call, or from Latin cucūlus. Latin cucūlus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus) and the diminutive suffix -ulus.
2. Old French -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“wielder, ruler, leader”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaz (compare German Gewalt, from the related *waldą (“power, might”)), from *waldaną (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong; to rule”).
3. Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.
Sample Sentences
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"Gave her anything she wanted - her own car, her own bank account, a free leg to amuse herself as she pleased. Of course she hated him for it. Cuckolded him, too, naturally." [1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 173:]
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Most of the twelve Caesars were rumored to have been licentious as both adulterers and homosexuals (not that the two were mutually exclusive, as will be seen), and Gaius and Nero were both supposed to have been adulterers, active homosexuals, and pathics. According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar was cuckolded by Clodius (Iul. 6, 74) but was himself so noted an adulterer that Pompey (lul. 50) called him "Aegisthus" (mock epic again); and his foreign affairs were the talk of Rome and of the army (Iul, 49–52). [1992, Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, revised edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:]
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Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool. [2008, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic:]