英语词汇cuckold的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cuckold. Instead of building its own nest, the cuckoo eats other birds’ eggs and lays its eggs in their place. The cuckoo eggs are then hatched by the sparrow, wagtail, yellowhammer, or whatever. For this reason the bird’s name became the basis for the derisive word cuckold, “a husband whose wife has been unfaithful,” a term that dates back more than a century before Chaucer’s time. How cuckold came to be applied to the hus- band instead of the adulterer isn’t clear, though Dr. Johnson be- lieved that “it was usual to alarm the husband at the approach of an adulteress by calling out ‘cuckoo,’ which by mistake was applied in time to the person warned.” See cuckoo.

词汇	cuckold
词源	cuckold. Instead of building its own nest, the cuckoo eats other birds’ eggs and lays its eggs in their place. The cuckoo eggs are then hatched by the sparrow, wagtail, yellowhammer, or whatever. For this reason the bird’s name became the basis for the derisive word cuckold, “a husband whose wife has been unfaithful,” a term that dates back more than a century before Chaucer’s time. How cuckold came to be applied to the hus- band instead of the adulterer isn’t clear, though Dr. Johnson be- lieved that “it was usual to alarm the husband at the approach of an adulteress by calling out ‘cuckoo,’ which by mistake was applied in time to the person warned.” See cuckoo.
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