cuckold

Also known as cuck, wittol

thumb|The Jealous Husband (1847), a genre painting by [[Cornelius Krieghoff depicting a cuckolded husband]]

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History of the term
Frequency of cuckoldry
Metaphor and symbolism
Horns and the rut
Green hat
Associations
Cross-cultural parallels
Cuckoldry as a fetish
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thumb|The Jealous Husband (1847), a genre painting by [[Cornelius Krieghoff depicting a cuckolded husband]]

A cuckold is the husband of an adulterous wife; the wife of an adulterous husband is a cuckquean. In biology, a cuckold is a male who unwittingly invests parental effort in juveniles who are not genetically his offspring. A husband who is aware of and tolerates his wife's infidelity is sometimes called a wittol or wittold. The slang term bull refers to the dominant man who has relations with the cuckold's partner.