Wittol

413 The perfect stupidity of the old wittol is told with the driest Arab humour. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Other words on the list include 'wittol' - a man who tolerates his wife's unfaithfulness, which has not been much used since the 1940s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with shine eyes;” and struck her so that her head went flying. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Melius sic errare, quam Zelotypiae curis, saith Erasmus, se conficere, better be a wittol and put it up, than to trouble himself to no purpose. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When I really got into early modern culture, I learned that a ton of the sexual jokes involve men who are cuckolds; there's even a word for a cuckold who's happy about it, a wittol usually because he's happy someone else is satisfying his wife. ❋ Bardiac (2007)

She would not quit the estate and title of the wittol who had wedded her. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I should be sorry to interrupt the course of your pleasure; an old wittol should have more consideration of his condition. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But now I find I was a gull, a wittol, a woodcock, a mere ninny, a dolt-head, ❋ Unknown (2002)

A wittol, a barber, and a bald-headed man travelled together. ❋ Various (N/A)

Even here he never becomes the complaisant wittol, which late and rather ignoble works like the _Cokwold's Daunce_ [57] represent him as being: and he never exhibits the slightest approach to the outbursts of almost imbecile wrath which characterise Charlemagne. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Shakespere would have felt, more fully than Heywood, the danger of presenting his hero something of a wittol without sufficient passion of religion or affection to justify his tolerance. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

When he returned at the appointed time to fetch it away, there happened to be a number of bodies in the same place, so he was asked if his father had any peculiarity by which his body might be recognised, and the wittol replied, "He had a cough." ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

When the noodle is persuaded, as in the following case of a Sinhalese wittol, by a gang of thieves to join them in a plundering expedition, they have little reason to be pleased with him, for he does not make a good "cat's-paw." ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

When the doctor returned home he inquired of his hopeful pupil, whether any person had called for him, upon which the wittol proudly told him of his own exploit. ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

"By the head of the Prophet," exclaimed the wittol, "had I known that my cow was such a prodigy of excellence, you should not have caught me in the market with her for sale." ❋ William Alexander Clouston (1869)

St. Nicholas! it were a good deed, once we are past the mountains again, to ride to Utterbol and drag that swine and wittol from his hall and slay him, and give his folk a good day. ❋ William Morris (1865)

[FN#413] The perfect stupidity of the old wittol is told with the driest Arab humour. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Now when the Rayy man heard this, he said, "Yonder wittol-pimp lusteth after my wife; but I will at once do him a damage." ❋ Anonymous (1855)

"Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

When his wife told him she had just made love to his best friend, her [husband], being a wittol, wished her happiness, and his wife displayed appropriate [affectionate] [contempt] for her husband. ❋ Paul Kusinitz (2002)