Wittol

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Archaic A man who knows of and tolerates his wife's infidelity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men; a contented cuckold.
  • n. A bird, the wheatear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The wheatear.
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a submissive cuckold.
  • To make a wittol, or contented cuckold, of.
  • n. A dialectal reduction of whitetail.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it
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    cuckold   
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