10-10-2016, 08:27 PM
(10-10-2016, 07:12 PM)taramarie Wrote: <snip>
That is not what the source defined it as that Gabrielle shared. Read the definition in the source. It was quite interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckold . What a weird word. It starts out as meaning essentially a "man duped by a cheating wife into investing in bastards she bore."
This relates to the cuckoo bird that dupes other birds into raising its young. Those cuckoos that lay their eggs into other birds' nests thusly create bastards for the other birds.
I think this is the linkage between the bird, cuckold, and cuck.
It's a strange mutation though. A term that mutates from "sucker" to emasculated.
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