horned adj.
cuckolded, pertaining to cuckoldry or adultery.
Verse Libel 314: And horned Hammon will not see, / [...] / His copsmate now again is free, / And runnes againe her wonted race. | ‘Libel of Oxford’ in May & Bryson||
Rabelais III 46: If you marry, you will surely be one of the horned Brotherhood of Vulcan. | (trans.)||
Fumblers-Hall 5: Come you brave Artists of the Horned trade / That boast how many marr’d how many made. | ||
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. |