cornuto

A cuckold.

Noun

  1. A cuckold.
    • No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it...

Origin

Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).

Forms

cornutos cornutoes