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Webster 1913 Edition
Wittol
Wit′tol
,Noun.
[Said to be for
white tail
, and so called in allusion to its white tail; but cf. witwal
.] 1.
(Zool.)
The wheatear.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
A man who knows his wife’s infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; – so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wittol
WITTOL
,Noun.