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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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 Thomas Hardy
“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 Sir Owen Seaman
From an obs. word cuck, to ease one's self; cf.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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 Thomas Hardy
The other was a cuck, cuck, cuck, which sounded much like the song of the Cuckoo.
From The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends by Melvin Hix
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