Etymology

wittol

W4I1T1T1O1L1

Today it means: A man who knows and tolerates his wife's infidelity with another man or men; a mari complaisant. Full definition →

Middle English witewold
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromwitewold
  2. English todaywittol

From Middle English witewold; likely a blend of witen (“to know”) + cockewold (“cuckold”), equivalent to wit + cuckold.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.