Meaning of Wittol | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.
   archaic
2. A bird, the wheatear.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“To see […] a 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!”

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