The term ‘cuckoldry’ usually refers to a father bringing up someone else’s kids unbe-knownst to them. It is derived from the habits of which cheeky bird?
The term ‘cuckold’ first appears in the famed poem ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’ in 1250, and popped up frequently in the writings of Shakespeare and Chaucer, who wrote: “For she was wild and young, and he was old, And deemed himself as like to be a cuckold “