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Wittol   Listen
noun
Wittol  n.  
1.
(Zool.) The wheatear. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. (Obs.)





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"Wittol" Quotes from Famous Books



... is his lay, As whilome he was wont the leagues to cheer, His quick bells wildly jingling on the way? No! as he speeds, he chants 'Viva el Rey!' And checks his song to execrate Godoy, The royal wittol Charles, and curse the day When first Spain's queen beheld the black-eyed boy, And gore-faced Treason sprung ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron
... reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that does me this wrong. Terms! names!—Amaimon 265 sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils' additions, the names of fiends: but Cuckold! Wittol!—Cuckold! the devil himself hath not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, 270 Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, ...
— The Merry Wives of Windsor - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare


Words linked to "Wittol" :   cuckold


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