I have sure spies on the Saxon's motions To-night they sleep in the convent of Saint Wittol , or Withold, or whatever they call that churl of a Saxon Saint at Burton-on-Trent.

You probably wouldn't know how to respond if someone called you a ninnycock or a wittol . That's because vast swathes of shocking olde English words have disappeared.

A LANGUAGE historian has revealed the best long-lost swear words from Britain - including nippy, tarse and wittol .

Interestingly, Piero was a willing cuckold or wittol having been given a job by Francesco to support Bianca, while also being a philanderer himself.

Funeral service to take place on Tuesday 16th October at Witton Chapel at 12.30pm followed by burial at Wittol Cemetery.

Other words on the list include " wittol " - a man who tolerates his wife's unfaithfulness, which has not been much used since the 1940s.

Other words on the list include ' wittol ' - a man who tolerates his wife's unfaithfulness, not much used since the 1940s.

London, August 22 (ANI): A new research from Collins Dictionary has indicated that words like aerodrome, charabanc, wittol , drysalter, alienism and many others are no longer used by people.

After LT was published and a kind of poetical press war developed, Swinburne complained that Tennyson's version had "lowered the note and deformed the outline of the Arthurian story, by reducing Arthur to the level of a wittol , Guenevere to the level of a woman of intrigue, and Lancelot to the level of a 'co-respondent.'" (15) Alternative redactions of elements in the Arthurian saga poured from presses in the 1860s and 1870s, some taking adulterous love as a more transcendent and tragic affiliation than Arthur's lawful union with Guinevere.

All wit dilates on the joys of a contented wittol . But Sir Walter's prospects vanish at the birth of an heir to Lady Kix, his kinswoman, and he gets into trouble with the law.