cuckold-maker

English

cuckold-maker (plural cuckold-makers)

One who cuckolds; a man who seduces another's wife.
- c. 1613, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, act 5, scene 4, lines 23–26:
  but if I spared any / That had a head to hit, either young or old, / He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker, / Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again
(obsolete) The penis.
- 1613, John Marston, The Insatiate Countess, act 3:
  Would I had had the circumcising of thee, Jew, ide ha' cut short your cuckold-maker; I would i'faith, I would ifaith!

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