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wittols

wittols is the plural 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.

Questions about wittols

What is wittols the plural of?
Wittols is the plural of wittol.

Words near wittols in the dictionary

  1. wittol
  2. wittold
  3. wittoldry
  4. wittolds
  5. wittolly
  6. wittols
  7. Witton
  8. Witton Bridge
  9. Witton Park
  10. Witton-le-Wear
  11. Wittrock

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