English

Noun

cuckoldry ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cuckoldries)

1. An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     How many such-like cuckoldries are there in histories, procured by the Gods against seely mortall men?

2. The state of being a cuckold.
3. (zoology) Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.

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