wear a fork

wear a fork
   obsolete to be cuckolded
   The fork, or antlers, was a traditional indication of cuckoldry. Also as wear horns:
    I wondered how many sets of horns Griswald III was wearing. (Sanders 1994 — he had just added one more himself)
   See also forked plague and horn2.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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