Wittol vs Wit - What's the difference?
wittol | wit | Derived terms |
(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.
Sanity.
The senses.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
Intelligence; common sense.
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
(ambitransitive, chiefly, archaic) Know, be aware of .
* 1849 , , St. Luke the Painter , lines 5–8
(en-SoE)
Wittol is a derived term of wit.
As nouns the difference between wittol and wit
is that wittol is (archaic) a man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold while wit is sanity.As a verb wit is
(ambitransitive|chiefly|archaic) know, be aware of.As a preposition wit is
(with).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!
See also
* cuckold * cuckquean * mari complaisantwit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . Compare (m).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* brevity is the soul of wit * collect one's wits * gather one's wits * have one’s wits about one * inwit * mother wit * native wit * scare out of one’s wits * witcraft * witful * witless * witling * witter * wittol * witticismSee also
(type of humor) * acid * biting * cutting * lambentEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (m).Verb
(head)- You committed terrible actions — to wit , murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
- They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
- but soon having wist
- How sky-breadth and field-silence and this day
- Are symbols also in some deeper way,
- She looked through these to God and was God’s priest.