What do you call a wife cuckold?
It's a word with interesting ancestors, etymologically speaking, so let's take a closer look. Cuck is short for cuckold or cuckservative (which blends cuckold and conservative). ... An unusual related word is cuckquean, meaning the wife of an unfaithful husband – like cuckold with the gender roles reversed.
What does a cuckold?
A cuckold is a man whose wife is having an affair with another man. [literary, old-fashioned] transitive verb. If a married woman is having an affair, she and her lover are cuckolding her husband.