cornute

American  

[kawr-noot, -nyoot] / kɔrˈnut, -ˈnjut /

verb (used with object)

cornuted, cornuting

1. Archaic. to cuckold.

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adjective

1. cornuted.

cornute British  

/ kɔːˈnjuːt /

adjective

1. biology having or resembling cornua; hornlike

   the cornute process of a bone

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Etymology

Origin of cornute

1590–1600; < Latin cornūtus horned, equivalent to cornū horn + -tus adj. suffix

Example Sentences

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cornute cornuted

So the Larrikin stopped and said to him, "Dost thou cry out upon me and call to me with these words, O cornute?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The extraordinary cornute oranges described and figured by Ferrari, Gallesio, and other writers on the genus Citrus, may be mentioned under this head.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

This amazing structure rested upon a myriad-footed base of crystal, even as had that other cornute fantasy beside which we had met the great Disk.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

Literally to crown all, his ruddy hair was twisted upward from each temple in a cornuted fashion that was most vividly picturesque.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William

For this—to be cornuted in mine age And die a by-word?

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar

I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir