different between cuck vs cuckold

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• enPR: k?k, IPA^(key): /k?k/

Etymology 1

Clipping of cuckold. The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on 4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after.

Noun

cuck (plural cucks)

1. (slang) A cuckold.
   • 1706, Edward Ward, Hudibras redivivus, I.10:

     Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.

   • 2015, Filipa Jodelka, The Guardian, 17 August:

     We bounce from Bisset and Seymour’s increasingly happy shagging to Worsley, the willing cuck, watching on and, finally, the trial that Worsley brings against Bisset.

2. (derogatory, slang) A weakling.
   • 2016, Kumail Nanjiani, quoted in The Guardian, 12 November:

     “He starts getting in my face. Thomas puts his hand on the dude’s chest to stop him. ‘Don’t touch me you cuck. Wanna go outside?’”

   • 2020, "TDO" quoted by Vinny Troia in Hunting Cyber Criminals[1]:

     You're site is SHITE. It gets hacked DAILY. You dumb cuck.

3. (derogatory, slang) One who acts against one's own interests, or that of one's own race, gender, class, religion, etc.

Related terms

• cuckservative

Verb

cuck (third-person singular simple present cucks, present participle cucking, simple past and past participle cucked)

1. (slang, transitive) To cuckold, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
2. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To weaken or emasculate.
3. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To fool and thus lower the status of, to exploit the trust or tolerance of (to one's own benefit and the other's disadvantage); to make into a cuck (one who acts against their own interests).
   • 2016 May 18, Milo Yiannopoulos, "Cucked by Zuck":

     It’s redolent of the way establishment conservatives lost the culture war in the first place, by bowing to the opposition, allowing others to play them for fools, and contenting themselves with the occasional scraps thrown to them by progressive elites. I said “cucked by Zuck” earlier, but in reality, they were cucked a long time ago and by their enemies in the Democratic Party and liberal media.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from cucking stool.

Verb

cuck (third-person singular simple present cucks, present participle cucking, simple past and past participle cucked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool.
   • 1611, Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle:

     Follow the law, and you can cucke mee, spare not.

References

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Etymology

From Middle English cok, from Old English cocc, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk.

Noun

cuck

1. cock (rooster)

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuault; a compound of cucu (“cuckoo”) (some varieties of the cuckoo bird lay their eggs in another’s nest) and Old French -auld. Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo's call, or from Latin cuc?lus. Latin cuc?lus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus) and the diminutive suffix -ulus. -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; confer English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“power, mastery, dominion”), from Proto-Germanic *wald? (“might, power, authority”) (compare German Gewalt), from *waldan? (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *wal- (“to be strong”). Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??ld
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?.k??ld/, /?k?.k?ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.ko?ld/, /?k?.k?ld/

Noun

cuckold (plural cuckolds)

1. A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.

   Synonyms: cornuto, cuck; see also Thesaurus:cuckold

   Coordinate terms: cuckquean; see also Thesaurus:cuckquean

   • 1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book, Chapter 36

     If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold.

   • 2001, Goran V. Stanivukovic, Ovid and the Renaissance Body, page 178:

     In the early English drama, no play better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willing cuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuckold.
2. (fetishism) A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
3. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
4. The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.

Synonyms

• (Rhinesomus triqueter): Ostracion triqueter, smooth trunkfish

Derived terms

• cuck
• cuckolder
• cuckoldress
• cuckoldry

Related terms

• bull
• horner (“one who cuckolds”); see also Thesaurus:cuckolder
• stag
• vixen
• cuckquean
• wittol

Translations

Verb

cuckold (third-person singular simple present cuckolds, present participle cuckolding, simple past and past participle cuckolded)

1. (transitive) To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.

   Synonyms: cuck, horn, hornify; see also Thesaurus:cuckoldize

   • 2008, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic

     Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.

Translations

Further reading

• cuckold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• smooth trunkfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scrawled cowfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia