Re: how many bastards are there, anyway?

Jeffrey Nelson / STILL AGIN' (jlnelson@mole.uvm.edu)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:03:52 -0400

> What is the derivation of "put the horns on him," in reference to
> cuckolding someone? Is it from a play?

I'm sure it was common usage mumble hundred years ago, widespread in
plays. (See "The Rise of the Novel") Moliere's Tartuffe, for one, even
though the orig. was in french, of course.

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