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cuck·old AHD[kŭkʹəld, k‹kʹ-] D.J.[ˈkʌkəld, ˈkʊk-]K.K.[ˈkʌkəld, ˈkʊk-]n.（名词）- A man married to an unfaithful wife.戴绿帽者，乌龟：妻子有外遇的人
v.tr.（及物动词）cuck.old.ed, cuck.old.ing, cuck.olds - To make a cuckold of.使…戴绿帽子
- Middle English cokewald 中古英语 cokewald
- from Anglo-Norman *cucuald 源自 英法语 *cucuald
- from cucu [the cuckoo] 源自 cucu [杜鹃]
- from Vulgar Latin *cuccūlus 源自 俗拉丁语 *cuccūlus
- from Latin cucūlus 源自 拉丁语 cucūlus
注释- In our era of more relaxed sexual mores,the allusion to the cuckoo on which the wordcuckold is based may be little appreciated. The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds,leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters.This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well.Hence in Old French we find the wordcucuault, composed ofcocu, "cuckoo, cuckold,” and the pejorative suffix -ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo.An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman.Middle Englishcokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 1250.在我们这个性爱很开放的时代，引用杜鹃这一典故来解释cuckold 这一词可能不受欢迎。 某些东半球杜鹃的雌鸟把蛋下在其它鸟类的鸟巢中，由巢中的鸟代为照料它们的幼虫。这个寄生倾向也赋予了该雌鸟以不忠实的象征性名声。因此我们可以在古法语中找到cucuauct 一词， 由cocu “杜鹃，戴绿帽者”以及 -ald 这一表轻蔑的后缀组成， 用来称呼妻子象雌杜鹃一样离家在外游荡的男子。这一旧法语单词的一种早先被采用的形式通过英国法语被借入中古英语中。中古英语词语cokewold 是这一现代英语 cuckold 的祖先， 首先被记载在大约写于1250年的一个作品中
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