wittol🔊

(archaic) A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant.

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To see […] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs […]

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)

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.

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888)

(UK, dialect, obsolete) A bird, the wheatear.

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