cuck
Americannoun
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a man whose wife or girlfriend is unfaithful; cuckold.
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a weak, subservient, or contemptible person, especially a man.
Etymology
Origin of cuck
First recorded in 1600–10; shortened from cuckold ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Baden-W�rttemberg was formerly famed mostly for the cuck oo clock, which remained for centuries the area's best-known product.
From Time Magazine Archive
He passed by Yalbury-Wood where the game-birds were rising to their roosts, and heard the crack-voiced cock-pheasants "cu-uck, cuck," and the wheezy whistle of the hens.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
When started, the voice is 'cuck, cuck, cuck,' like the common pheasant.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832 by Various
“It is ten days,” writes a naturalist, “since I heard the unmistakable ‘Cuck, cuck, cuck’ of the newly-arrived cuckoo at Hampstead.”
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
He passed by Yalbury Wood where the game-birds were rising to their roosts, and heard the crack-voiced cock-pheasants "cu-uck, cuck," and the wheezy whistle of the hens.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
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