one who knows wife's faithlessness and submits to it
• (n.) The wheatear. • (n.) 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.
Wit'tol noun [ Said to be for white tail , and so called in allusion to its white tail; but confer witwal .] 1. (Zoology) 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 ...
Wittol (originally spelled wittold) was an old English term for a husband who knew about, and was content with his wife's unfaithfulness.
noun an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife`s infidelity but tolerates it