A person who has accepted and become complacent to the deprivation of that person's role or identity.
The term is a shortened take of “
cuckold” which is defined as “A husband of an adulterous wife.” The implicit message there, then, is that anyone called a “cuck” is someone perceived as emasculated.
A cuckquean, is the
gender-opposite of a
cuckold, is a woman with an adulterous husband.