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Cuck vs Wittol - What's the difference?

cuck | wittol |

As a noun wittol is

(archaic) a man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold.

cuck

Not English

Cuck has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'cuck':

chook, cock, cook, check, chick, cack, cheek, chock, chuck, cask, chk, coak, chack, chowk, cusk, choak, cauk, chek

wittol

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold.
  • *, New York Review of Books 2001, p.67:
    • To seea wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […].
  • * 1885 , Sir (w), , "Night 13"
    • So the Ifrit cried at her, "Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.
  • * 1960 , (John Barth), (w)
    • God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.

    • See also

    * cuckold * cuckquean * mari complaisant