We have no desire to get involved in the politics of etymology; that is, to analyze why our language does or does not include a particular term. Nonetheless, we find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma: do we discuss why our lexicon includes the word cuckold to refer to a man whose wife is unfaithful but doesn't have a word to refer to the woman whose husband is unfaithful? Or should we simply pass on the story of how cuckold came by that meaning? (来源：英语学习门户 http://www.EnglishCN.com)

We'll begin by explaining why a cuckold is said to be identified by his horns. These imaginary horns have their origin in the old custom of cutting the spurs from cockerels, when the young male fowls are castrated, then planting the growths in the comb, where they develop into hornlike features that made it easy to distinguish the capons (castrated male chickens) from other fowl. Capons were traditional symbols of cuckoldry.

The word cuckold comes from a bird of different feather, however: the cuckoo. It seems that the female cuckoo bird is known for laying her eggs willy-nilly in the nests of other birds. The French name for the bird was borrowed into English to name the victim of a wanton and unfaithful wife (and, oddly, not the adulterous wife herself).

As to why the male cuckold doesn't have a female counterpart in our lexicon, well, since it's time we fly the coop, we'll close by inviting theories.