cuckolder

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cuckolder

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From cuckold + -er.

noun cuckolders

  1. A male of certain kinds of fish that interrupts a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
  2. One who commits cuckoldry; one who cuckolds. The friends of the respective parties, those of the cuckolder on one side, and those of the cuckoldee on the other side; and the public (as far as play-house audiences are the public) have fairly decided in favour of the cuckolder! What an admirable system of “public instruction”!

Similar: cornutor, cuckolder, cuckold-maker, two-timer · Opposite: cuckold, cuckoldee, cuckquean

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@misc{cuckolder_2026,
  title = {cuckolder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cuckolder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}