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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wittol \Wit"tol\, n. [Said to be for white tail, and so called in allusion to its white tail; but cf. witwal.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Zool.) The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wittol n 1: an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it