Cuckold vs Adultry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cuckold and adultry

is that cuckold is a man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact while adultry is .

is to make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.

(cuckold) (Rhinesomus) (Scrawled cowfish)

(en noun)

A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.

* 1546 ,

If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold .

A West Indian plectognath fish, .

The cowfish, and allied species.

* This was a standard comic figure in medieval and Shakespearean drama.

* , smooth trunkfish

* (a man married to an unfaithful wife) wittol, mari complaisant

* cuckolder * cuckoldry * cuckquean

(en verb)

To make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.

* 2008 , , Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic

Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.

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