413 The perfect stupidity of the old wittol is told with the driest Arab humour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

A wittol, a barber, and a bald-headed man travelled together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832] Reference

But now I find I was a gull, a wittol, a woodcock, a mere ninny, a dolt-head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

“Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with shine eyes;” and struck her so that her head went flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Melius sic errare, quam Zelotypiae curis, saith Erasmus, se conficere, better be a wittol and put it up, than to trouble himself to no purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

She would not quit the estate and title of the wittol who had wedded her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

"Thou whorest and makest me a wittol with thine eyes;" and struck her so that her head went flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Page view page image: to outstrip the armies of King Numan, and succeed in putting this black wittol to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antar :] Reference

I should be sorry to interrupt the course of your pleasure; an old wittol should have more consideration of his condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

But now I find I was a gull, a wittol, a woodcock, a mere ninny, a dolt-head, a noddy, a changeling, a calf-lolly, a doddipoll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

"By the head of the Prophet," exclaimed the wittol, "had I known that my cow was such a prodigy of excellence, you should not have caught me in the market with her for sale.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference

Amarah, is that black wittol, Antar? what achievement is there this army cannot effect, amongst which the first acknowledge, and the last assert, there is none like the terrible Amarah in the time of difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antar :] Reference

"Here's curtain time close upon us, and you come like a wittol scattering your mad questions like the crazed.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Great Magic] Reference

Or has my mien, as a wittol and discarded favourite, the properties of the Gorgon’s head, the turbatae Palladis arma, as Majesty might say?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

"Pray, don't call that wittol my brother!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Waltheof the wittol, save that which I have foretold many a time? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

"Gospatrick! the wittol! the woodcock! looking at the springe, and then coolly putting his head therein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

And but a poor wittol to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

And but a poor wittol to see!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

While thy wittol masters sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

Now cut off that black wittol, Antar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antar :] Reference

Or heartless wittol, that must hear no good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference

Where wast thou, wittol Ward, when hapless fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes] Reference

The wittol!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference