Labels: Charles Kingsley, Harry Harrison, William Morris
Permalink: wittol Entry By: CJ Cooney Smash illiteracy! Email This Word To A Friend: | ||
Back to the main page.... |
a dictionary of words and phrases on the verge of extinction — updated daily — for the word obsessed! |
|
wittol WI-tuhl noun a stupid person; a cuckolded man 1866Hereward: The Last of the EnglishGospatrick! the wittol! the woodcock! looking at the springe, and then coolly putting his head therein.1896The Well at the World's EndBy St. Nicholas! it were a good deed, once we are past the mountains again, to ride to Utterbol and drag that swine and wittol from his hall and slay him, and give his folk a good day.1993The Hammer and the CrossNow what was the wittol staring at?Labels: Charles Kingsley, Harry Harrison, William Morris
|