cuckold
Sign in to savethumb|The Jealous Husband (1847), a genre painting by [[Cornelius Krieghoff depicting a cuckolded husband]]
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11 sectionsContents
- History of the term
- Frequency of cuckoldry
- Metaphor and symbolism
- Horns and the rut
- Green hat
- Associations
- Cross-cultural parallels
- Cuckoldry as a fetish
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|The Jealous Husband (1847), a genre painting by [[Cornelius Krieghoff depicting a cuckolded husband]]
A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not genetically his offspring. A husband who is aware of and tolerates his wife's infidelity is sometimes called a wittol or wittold. The slang term bull refers to the dominant man who has relations with the cuckold's partner.