Thesaurus: wittol

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1. n. The wheatear.
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.
3. n. an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it
4. 1. (Zoöl.) The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.] 2. 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.
5. The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.]
6. n an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it