WITTOL

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.]

2.
n.

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.] Shak.


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