cuckold, marital, hubby, playfight

Antony Penrose, whose parents Lee Miller and Roland Penrose were friends with Pablo Picasso, remembers their playfights as a new exhibition opens

Picasso, by the boy who bit him

Antony Penrose, whose parents were friends of the artist’s, remembers their playfights as a new exhibition opens

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Who hath no wyf [wife] he is no cokewold [cuckold]. - Chaucer, (A. 3152)


A witty senryu(川柳) poem from the Edo Period (1603-1867) goes: "The hubby who won marital quarrel/ Is now making dinner." After taking her husband's verbal onslaught, the wife retaliates by "abandoning her duties in the kitchen." With a couple like that, I imagine both partners will live long.

play-fight

NOUN

A pretend or recreational fight.

Origin

Late 19th century; earliest use found in Arizona Republican.

hubby
noun [C]
INFORMAL FOR husband:
She speaks fondly of Richard Moreland, hubby No.1, whom she still sees regularly.


marital
adjective FORMAL
connected with marriage:
They've been having marital problems, apparently.
HUMOROUS You can't expect to live in a state of marital bliss.
marital breakdown

cuckold 

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌk(ə)ld/ 

NOUN

dated

The husband of an adulteress, often regarded as an object of derision:jokes in literature about elderly cuckolds and misers are rife

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

1(Of a man) make (another man) a cuckold by having a sexual relationship with his wife:in the novel Humberto cuckolds his employer

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1.1(Of a man’s wife) make (her husband) a cuckold:he was repeatedly cuckolded by his wife Aphrodite

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Derivatives

cuckoldry

NOUN

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Origin

Late Old English, from Old French cucuault, from cucu 'cuckoo' (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest). The equivalent words in French and other languages applied to both the bird and the adulterer; cuckold has never been applied to the bird in English.

A cuckold is a married man whose wife has sex with other men. In current usage it sometimes refers to non-married couples in committed relationships as well, although the traditional meaning is a man whose wife is adulterous.
History of the term
"Cuckold" is derived from the Old French for the Cuckoo bird, "Cocu" with the pejorative suffix -ald. The earliest written use of the Middle English derivation, “cokewold” occurs in 1250. The females of certain varieties of Cuckoo lay their eggs in other bird’s nests, freeing themselves from the need to nurture the eggs to hatching. In medieval Europe, the law, custom, and the church all defined married women as a category of property held by their husbands. Although Christian marriage vows strictly enjoined sexual exclusivity in a marriage for both partners, custom and doctrine rarely enforced it on the husband.