# Bunny Ears and Cuckold's Horns

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunny-ears-and-cuckolds-horns/103584>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 14, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunny-ears-and-cuckolds-horns/103584 "2002-04-14T16:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunny-ears-and-cuckolds-horns/103584/1 "2002-04-14T16:44:23Z")

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I definitely feel like I’m over-intellectualizing on this one, but oh well.

The tradition of putting your two fingers behind someone’s head in a picture or in some other situation is pretty familiar to all of us as “bunny ears”. It is seen as a way to sort of make fun of someone. I was wondering if there is any connection to this gesture and to the more archaic tradition of “cuckold’s horns”, the horns a man metaphorically gets when his wife has been sleeping with another man.

If bunny ears don’t come from cuckold’s horns, where do they come from?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunny-ears-and-cuckolds-horns/103584/2 "2002-04-14T17:14:56Z")

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I have a photo of myself standing next to Star Trek actress Robin Curtis and I’m giving her the “bunny-ears” treatment, except I’m doing the Vulcan version with all four fingers.

It has nothing to do with the question at hand (no pun intended), but I just like telling funny stories about myself. It’s my hobby.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bunny-ears-and-cuckolds-horns/103584/3 "2002-04-14T17:50:57Z")

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Could they possibly come from bunnies? 😕  
Or **Playboy!** 🆒