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Cuckold vs Simp - What's the difference?

cuckold | simp |

As nouns the difference between cuckold and simp

is that cuckold is a man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact while simp is (slang) a simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.

As a verb cuckold

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

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

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    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

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    simp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A simple person lacking common sense; a fool or simpleton.
  • *1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 59:
  • *:Pimps and simps would fall in from here and there and everywhere, grabbing thousand-dollar advances from the madames and leaving their lady friends in pawn.
  • * 1981 , Philip K. Dick, Valis , ISBN 0553205943, p. 105
    • Groggy from my nap I turn on the TV and try to watch.... Morons and simps appear in the screen, drool like pinheads and waterheads....

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