cornutor

One who makes another person into a cuckold.

Noun

  1. One who makes another person into a cuckold.
    • Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […] - 1659, Robert Heath, “Why the Cornutee loves the...
    • He that thinks every man is his wife's suitor, / Defiles his bed, and proves his own cornutor. - c. 1680, Thomas Jordan, “On a Citizen that was so unreasonably jealous of his wife, that he durst not trust her with the...

Origin

From Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus, from cornu. By surface analysis, cornute + -or.

Forms

cornutors

Synonyms

cuckolder