wittollyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

wittolly (comparative more wittolly, superlative most wittolly)

1. (obsolete) Like a wittol; cuckoldly.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     FALSTAFF: […] they say the jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money […]

参照

• “wittolly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.