Wittol - What does it mean?
wittol | |
(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:
* 1885 , Sir (w), , "Night 13"
* 1960 , (John Barth), (w)
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.
wittol
English
Noun
(en noun)- To seea wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […].
- 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.
- God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!