horn mad:

1. Defined by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' A person extremely jealous of his wife , is said to be horn mad. Also a cuckold , who does not cut or breed his horns easily .'

2. A cuckolded husband .

See Also: all forlorn, amour fou, cornification, cornucopia, have a horn, horn, horn mad, horned, hornified, horns, mad pash, put horns on, queen on a broomstick, ram

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