Cornuto

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cuckold. obsolete

    "No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy"

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cuckoldcuckoldhoddy-peak

Example

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"No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy"

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).

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