If anyone has never seen the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love you might as well stop reading this now because
it is not going to make any sense to you. Instead, go watch the movie. (Well
that’s a lie, read it anyways.) But the movie is great. Especially if you are a
girl and think that Ryan Gosling is a babe. (Cough, Cough. Because he is…) And
if you don’t think so, stop lying to yourself.
So you know when Cal is at the bar
(after he rolled out of a moving vehicle), wearing his khakis (probably from the
Gap) and sneakers (New Balance I believe?), drunk from watered down cranberry
vodkas, and ranting and raving about David Lindhagen? (Good ol' Kevin Bacon) “David Lindhagen
cuckolded me! He made a cuckold out of me!” he shouted at the bar to anyone and
everyone. While I was sitting there watching that scene, I was thinking to
myself, “What does “cuckold” mean?” I would like to think that
I have a pretty expansive vocabulary, but not only did I have absolutely zero idea
what this word meant, by no means have I ever even heard of it before.
Cuckold: The husband of an
unfaithful wife. What?! There is an actual, established word for this! Of
course I searched if a term existed for the wife of an unfaithful husband. If
one didn’t exist, I would have been extremely offended and created one myself.
Not that I am a feminist, I am more so just a modern woman. But there was no
need for those measures because such a word does exist; it is “cucquean.”
Bam. Now you know two more words. Add those to your vocabulary. You are
welcome.
But back to the point. So I am chilling and reading
my sweet biography of Catherine the Great, when what little word do I come
across? Cuckold! Remember the little promiscuity that Catherine exhibited?
Those little rendezvous branded Peter as a cuckold.
And that, is your vocab lesson for the day which will come
in handy for the next lesson.
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