I think they've been watching too much porn.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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I mean, if you take the word literally, as in cuckoo, he is technically right. Even more so than the actual meaning of cuck. Since cuckoos don't bang other birds' partners, but make them raise children that aren't theirs.
Wouldn't that make the wifes former partner the cuck? Not the current one?
Based on the bird behavior it would be closer, yeah.
Looking at the etymology, it seems the middle English just used the word for the whole situation, and not a strict analogy.
For pure bird-ness, it would apply best to a case of a woman adopting a step child, even more to adoption, and most of all to a single mother with three kids who one day realizes she's not sure how long there have been four babies in her house, and even though one is three times the size of the others and looks very different, they all have similar lower faces so she can't really tell and feeds them all just to be safe.
very true, i didn't think of that