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wittold

wittold is the alternative form of wittol.

Meaning of wittol

Noun

wittol (plural wittols)

  1. (archaic) A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.
    • To see […] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.

Forms of wittold

pluralwittolds

Words formed from wittold

Questions about wittold

What is wittold the alternative form of?
Wittold is the alternative form of wittol.

Words near wittold in the dictionary

  1. Wittmeyer
  2. Wittmeyers
  3. Wittner
  4. Wittners
  5. wittol
  6. wittold
  7. wittoldry
  8. wittolds
  9. wittolly
  10. wittols
  11. Witton

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