cokewold
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Old French cucuault.
Noun[edit]
cokewold (plural cokewolds)
- cuckold
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 118:
- And demed hymself, been lik a cokewold.
- And deemed himself, [he had] been like a cuckold.
Descendants[edit]
- English: cuckold
References[edit]
- “cokewold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “cokewold, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.