wittol

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Definition of wittol in English English dictionary

A man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men, a contented cuckold

God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!.

A man who meakly accepts his wife's adultery

{n} a mean contented cuckold

a man who knows of his wife's infidelity and puts up with it

a witless person

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

The wheatear

A man who knows or even condones his wifes enjoyment of coitus with another man or men, a contented cuckold

{i} man that is uncomplaining about his wife's infidelities (Archaic)

Hyphenation

wit·tol

Etymology

() From Middle English wetewold; a blend of weten (“know(ing)”), from Old English witan (“to know”), + cockewold (“cuckold”).