The difference between Cuckold and Horn
When used as nouns, cuckold means a man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact, whereas horn means a hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
When used as verbs, cuckold means to make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse, whereas horn means to assault with the horns.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cuckold and Horn
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Cuckold as a noun:
A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
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Cuckold as a noun:
A West Indian plectognath fish, .
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Cuckold as a noun:
The , and allied species.
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Cuckold as a verb (transitive):
To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
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Horn as a noun (countable):
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
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Horn as a noun:
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
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Horn as a noun:
An antler.
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Horn as a noun (uncountable):
The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
Examples:
"synonyms: keratin"
"an umbrella with a handle made of horn'"
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Horn as a noun (architecture):
An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. The Ionic volute. The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
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Horn as a noun (countable):
Any of several musical wind instruments.
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Horn as a noun (countable, musical instrument):
An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
Examples:
"hunting horn'"
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Horn as a noun (countable, automotive):
A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
Examples:
"synonyms: hooter klaxon"
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Horn as a noun (chiefly, sports):
A sound signaling the expiration of time.
Examples:
"The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count."
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Horn as a noun (countable):
A conical device used to direct waves.
Examples:
"synonyms: funnel"
"antenna horn'"
"loudspeaker horn'"
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Horn as a noun (informal, musical instrument, countable):
Generally, any brass wind instrument.
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Horn as a noun (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes):
A telephone.
Examples:
"synonyms: [[blower]] q UK [[dog and bone]] q Cockney rhyming slang phone"
"Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this."
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Horn as a noun (uncountable, coarse, slang, definite article):
An erection of the penis.
Examples:
"synonyms: [[boner]] q US hard-on stiffy"
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Horn as a noun (countable, geography):
A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
Examples:
"synonyms: peninsula"
"to navigate around the horn'"
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Horn as a noun (countable):
A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
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Horn as a noun (botany):
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed ().
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Horn as a verb (of an animal):
To assault with the horns
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Horn as a verb (slang, obsolete):
To cuckold