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Cuckold vs Hornify - What's the difference?

cuckold | hornify |

In lang=en terms the difference between cuckold and hornify

is that cuckold is to make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife while hornify is to make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.

As verbs the difference between cuckold and hornify

is that cuckold is to make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife while hornify is to make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.

As a noun cuckold

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

cuckold

English

(cuckold) (Rhinesomus) (Scrawled cowfish)

Noun

(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.
  • Usage notes

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

    Quotations

    *

    Synonyms

    * , smooth trunkfish

    Hyponyms

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

    Derived terms

    * cuckolder * cuckoldry * cuckquean

    Verb

    (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.

    Quotations

    *

    hornify

    English

    Verb

  • To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
  • * 1930 , The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17
  • We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum
  • (colloquial) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy (page 88)
  • The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny
  • (obsolete) To horn; to cuckold.
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)