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Cuckoos and cuckold
Fruitbat Started conversation Apr 5, 2000
Cuckoo in the Shakespreare's text is not really a pun of cuckold as much as vice versa: the root of 'cuckold' is cuckoo. A man whose wife had been unfaithful was like the bird visited by the cuckoo: his nest might contain offspring not his own.
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