Benedick.
A sworn bachelor caught in the wiles of matrimony, like Benedick in Shakespeare’s comedy of Much Ado about Nothing.
A sworn bachelor caught in the wiles of matrimony, like Benedick in Shakespeare’s comedy of Much Ado about Nothing.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.