cuckold['kʌkәuld]
汉语翻译
n. 有不贞妻子的男人
vt. 使戴绿帽子
词型变化
动词过去式:cuckolded 过去分词:cuckolded 现在分词:cuckolding 第三人称单数:cuckolds
英语解释
名词 cuckold:
- a man whose wife committed adultery
动词 cuckold:
- be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage同义词:cheat on, cheat, betray, wander
详细解释
cuck.old
n.(名词)A man married to an unfaithful wife.戴绿帽者,乌龟:妻子有外遇的人v.tr.(及物动词)
cuck.old.ed,
cuck.old.ing,
cuck.olds To make a cuckold of.使…戴绿帽子
来源:Middle English
cokewald 中古英语
cokewald from Anglo-Norman
*cucuald 源自 英法语
*cucuald from
cucu [the cuckoo] 源自
cucu [杜鹃] from Vulgar Latin
*cuccôlus 源自 俗拉丁语
*cuccôlus from Latin
cucôlus 源自 拉丁语
cucôlus
<注释>In our era of more relaxed sexual mores,the allusion to the cuckoo on which the word
cuckold 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 word
cucuault, composed of
cocu, .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 English
cokewold, the ancestor of Modern English
cuckold, is first recorded in a work written around 250.在我们这个性爱很开放的时代,引用杜鹃这一典故来解释
cuckold 这一词可能不受欢迎。 某些东半球杜鹃的雌鸟把蛋下在其它鸟类的鸟巢中,由巢中的鸟代为照料它们的幼虫。这个寄生倾向也赋予了该雌鸟以不忠实的象征性名声。因此我们可以在古法语中找到
cucuauct 一词, 由
cocu .杜鹃,戴绿帽者.以及
-ald 这一表轻蔑的后缀组成, 用来称呼妻子象雌杜鹃一样离家在外游荡的男子。这一旧法语单词的一种早先被采用的形式通过英国法语被借入中古英语中。中古英语词语
cokewold 是这一现代英语
cuckold 的祖先, 首先被记载在大约写于250年的一个作品中注释>