cuckold

詳細解釋：

cuck.old

n.（名詞）
A man married to an unfaithful wife.
戴綠帽者，烏龜：妻子有外遇的人
v.tr.（及物動詞）
cuck.old.ed,cuck.old.ing,cuck.olds
To make a cuckold of.
使…戴綠帽子

來源：
Middle English cokewald
中古英文 cokewald
from Anglo-Norman *cucuald
源自 英法文 *cucuald
from cucu [the cuckoo]
源自 cucu [杜鵑]
from Vulgar Latin *cuccôlus
源自 俗拉丁語 *cuccôlus
from Latin cucôlus
源自 拉丁語 cucôlus

<注釋>In our era of more relaxed sexual mores,the allusion to the cuckoo on which the wordcuckold is based may be little appreciated. The female of some Old World cuckoos lays its eggs in the nests of other birds,leaving them to be cared for by the resident nesters.This parasitic tendency has given the female bird a figurative reputation for unfaithfulness as well.Hence in Old French we find the wordcucuault, composed ofcocu, .cuckoo, cuckold,. and the pejorative suffix -ald and used to designate a husband whose wife has wandered afield like the female cuckoo.An earlier assumed form of the Old French word was borrowed into Middle English by way of Anglo-Norman.Middle Englishcokewold, the ancestor of Modern English cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 250.
在我們這個 * 很開放的時代，引用杜鵑這一典故來解釋cuckold 這一詞可能不受歡迎。 某些東半球杜鵑的雌鳥把蛋下在其它鳥類的鳥巢中，由巢中的鳥代為照料它們的幼蟲。這個寄生傾向也賦予了該雌鳥以不忠實的象徵性名聲。因此我們可以在古法文中找到cucuauct 一詞， 由cocu .杜鵑，戴綠帽者.以及 -ald 這一表輕蔑的後綴組成， 用來稱呼妻子象雌杜鵑一樣離家在外遊蕩的男子。這一舊法文單詞的一種早先被採用的形式通過英國法文被借入中古英文中。中古英文詞語cokewold 是這一現代英文 cuckold 的祖先， 首先被記載在大約寫於250年的一個作品中