cornuted

American  

[kawr-noo-tid, -nyoo-] / kɔrˈnu tɪd, -ˈnyu- /

adjective

1. having horns.

2. shaped like a horn.

3. Archaic. cuckolded.

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Etymology

Origin of cornuted

First recorded in 1605–15; cornute + -ed ²

Example Sentences

For this—to be cornuted in mine age And die a by-word?

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar

Literally to crown all, his ruddy hair was twisted upward from each temple in a cornuted fashion that was most vividly picturesque.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William

I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir