Wittol
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- A man who knows or even condones his wife's enjoyment of coitus with another man or men, a contented cuckold.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books 2001, p. 67:
- To see [...] a wittol wink at his wife's honesty, and too perspicuous in all other affairs [...].
- 1885, Sir Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, "Night 13"
- 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.
- 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor
- God help the husband that obliges his wife's least whim: he'll be a wittol ere he's two years wed!
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books 2001, p. 67:
- A bird, the wheatear.
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