cuckolding

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of cuckold.

   The duke suspected his own brother of cuckolding him while he was away at war.

   Cuckolding a rival was, in the play's world, the sweetest kind of revenge.

   Note

   Two constructions share this spelling: with be it makes the progressive (she was cuckolding him), and on its own it works as a gerund (cuckolding a rival was revenge). Either way the object is the betrayed partner, never the lover; the subject can be the unfaithful partner or the third party who seduced them.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially when it is done as a sexual kink.

   The novel treats the cuckolding of its pompous hero as comedy rather than tragedy.

   He admitted to his therapist that the idea of cuckolding excited him more than it hurt him.

   Note

   As a noun it names the practice as a thing in itself, so it can take an article and of, as in the cuckolding of its pompous hero, and even a plural, cuckoldings. The sexual kink is now the leading meaning, so a writer who means the old betrayal of comedy and fiction should let the context say so.

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