Cuckold vs Cheat - What's the difference?
cuckold | cheat |
A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
* 1546 ,
A West Indian plectognath fish, .
The cowfish, and allied species.
To make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.
* 2008 , , Questionable Content 1319:
To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
To deceive; to fool; to trick.
* Shakespeare
To beguile.
* Washington Irving
Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
* Dryden
The weed cheatgrass.
A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat code.
In transitive terms the difference between cuckold and cheat
is that cuckold is to make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife while cheat is to deceive; to fool; to trick.cuckold
English
(cuckold) (Rhinesomus) (Scrawled cowfish)Noun
(en noun)- If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold .
Usage notes
* This was a standard comic figure in medieval and Shakespearean drama.Quotations
*Synonyms
* , smooth trunkfishHyponyms
* (a man married to an unfaithful wife) wittol, mari complaisantDerived terms
* cuckolder * cuckoldry * cuckqueanVerb
(en verb)The Flimsiest of Logic
- Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.
Quotations
*cheat
English
Verb
(en verb)- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt * blench * break the rules * lirtNoun
(en noun)- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
