Cornutor

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who makes another person into a cuckold. obsolete

    "Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […]"

Example

More examples

"Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […]"

Etymology

Related to Latin cornu (“horn”). Compare English horner.

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