[f. CUCKOLD sb.1]
1. trans. To make a cuckold of; to dishonor (a husband) by adultery; said a. of a paramour; b. of a wife.
a. 1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxx. Few will judge, I winne, If it shall come in question, that to cockhole [1612 cuckhole] him were sinne.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., III. v. 138. You shall cuckold Ford.
1687. Settle, Refl. Dryden, 89. Dares not touch an insolent Fellow that he fears Cuckolds him.
a. 1754. Fielding, New Way to Keep, Wks. 1775, II. 171. It will be believed that I intended to cuckold your uncle.
b. 1604. Shaks., Oth., IV. i. 211. Oth. I will chop her into Messes: Cuckold me? Iago. Oh, ’tis foule in her.
1710. Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), III. 20. A Wife who takes care to have him cuckol’d every day.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, ix. 194. We heard a pleasant narration, about a poor man being cuckolded by his wife.
† 2. fig. To cheat, trick. Obs.
1644–7. Cleveland, Char. Lond. Diurn., 5. This is … hee, that Cuckolds the Generall in his Commission: for he stalkes with Essex, and shoots under his belly.
