horned adj.
cuckolded, pertaining to cuckoldry or adultery.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Libel of Oxford’ in May & Bryson Verse Libel 314: And horned Hammon will not see, / [...] / His copsmate now again is free, / And runnes againe her wonted race. | |
| (trans.) Rabelais III 46: If you marry, you will surely be one of the horned Brotherhood of Vulcan. | |
| Fumblers-Hall 5: Come you brave Artists of the Horned trade / That boast how many marr’d how many made. | |
 | The world in the moon 17: Jac. By this good Night, I’ll [i.e. the young wife] make him that tame horn’d Beast, that he shall lock the Door, hold the Candle, and light us to Bed. | |
| ‘Fortune’s Bounty’ in Poems on Divers Subjects (1706) 252: And to the place of Rendezvous, / For every Horn’d unhappy Spouse. | |
| New London Spy 130: [A] poor hen-pecked horned husband. | |
| Sporting Mag. Nov. IX 99/1: From the number of elopements [...] of suits in the ecclesiastical courts, and bills of divorce, we may call this a horned age. | |
| Doctor Syntax, Consolation (1868) 201/1: Horned honours deck his brow. | |
| Satirist (London) 8 Jan. 11/3: The establishment of a new market for horned cattle has created quite a sensation among the wives and husbands of the town. | |
| Peeping Tom (London) 25 100/2: ‘But, madam [...] have you no horned beasts?’ ‘Oh sir [...] you must wait till my husband returns’. | |
| More Gal’s Gossip 43: She fraternises with such horned cattle as the Monico masher. |