wittol
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wittol
1400–50; late Middle English wetewold, equivalent to wete wit 2 + ( coke ) wold cuckold
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Russian Ambassador to England after the Napoleonic wars, Lieven was an upright, punctilious, short-sighted wittol whose portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again, there is no historical proof that Captain O'Shea was the wittol and Gladstonian stool pigeon Playwright Schauffler shows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her conduct may indeed involve his dishonor, if he is what used to be called a wittol, but even then his dishonor is because of his own disgrace.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various
There are cases in which we may pretend to sleep; but the wittol rule has some sense in it, Non omnibus dormio.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
And to think," he said, "that all this time I have thought of him as my pet diversion, my wittol, my moon-calf!
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
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