- who is
aware of and
tolerates his wife's
infidelity is
sometimes called a
wittol or wittold. The word
cuckold derives from the
cuckoo bird,
alluding to its...
- was a pretence. The
comedy includes the
amusing characters of Sir
Joseph Wittol, a
foolish knight, who
allows himself to be
really married to Silvia, under...
-
Franz Huebling Steven Geray as
Wittol Walter Kohler as
Peter Bronec Juanita Moore as
Dominique Mort
Mills as Martin,
Wittol's Henchman Ralph Moody as Coroner...
-
Affair in
Trinidad (1952) as Martin,
Wittol's Henchman No
Holds Barred (1952) as
Second Mug (uncredited) The
Juggler (1953) as
Policeman (uncredited) The...
- ‘fortalice’, ‘kemperly’, ‘cark’, ‘foison’, ‘soothfast’, ‘perlection’, ‘
wittol’, ‘parergon’, ‘brewis’, ‘bles’, ‘fadaise’, ‘coelebs’, ‘vivisepulture’, and...
-
Stepanek Bal
Tabarin (1952) -
Inspector Manet Affair in
Trinidad (1952) -
Wittol The Big Sky (1952) - 'Frenchy'
Jourdonnais O. Henry's Full
House (1952)...
-
affair with the wife of Allwit, a
knowing cuckold, his name an
inversion of "
wittol," who
lives happily on the
money Sir
Walter gives his wife. Meanwhile, Touchwood...
-
chants "Viva el Rey" / And
check his song to
execrate Godoy, / The
royal wittol Charles... etc. and in the note to
these lines he
explains that it is to...
-
merchant named Tom Saleware.
Saleware has a
notorious re****tion as a "
wittol" – a
complaisant cuckold: his wife
Alicia Saleware sleeps with prominent...
- with
Maria but with the
Familist wife of
Purge the apothecary.
Purge is a "
wittol" or
complaisant cuckold,
though he is
distressed to
learn that Mrs. Purge...
