to feel like a cuck
- idiom
- Offensive
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sentirse cornudo
- After learning about the rumors, he couldn't help but feel like a cuck in front of his friends.
Examples
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Whenever he saw them together, he would feel like a cuck, overwhelmed by jealousy and shame.
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Dude, I felt like a cuck when I found out she was dating someone else!
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She said the revelation made her feel like a cuck, even though they weren't married.
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I feel like a cuck.
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After learning about her secret meetings with another man, he started to feel like a cuck during their conversations.
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Seeing his partner flirt with someone else made him feel like a cuck in that moment.
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He couldn't shake the feeling that he was feeling like a cuck whenever his friends mentioned her new boyfriend.
Antonyms
How Humiliated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally predictable: 'feel' (experience) + 'like' (as if) + 'a cuck' (a man seen as weak/emasculated because of a partner's infidelity) yields 'to experience humiliation/betrayal/emasculation'. While 'cuck' is slang with cultural connotations, if a B1 learner knows the constituent meanings including that slang sense, the overall meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
Feel like a cuck comes from the old word cuckold, which links to the cuckoo bird that lays its eggs in other birds' nests and so became a picture of a man whose partner had cheated on him. So, to feel like a cuck means 'to feel humiliated or betrayed' when you think your partner has been unfaithful.