wedbreach

English

Alternative forms
  • wed-breach, wed breach

Etymology

From wed +‎ breach. Compare English spousebreach (“adultery”), Old English ǣwbryċe (“adultery”).

Noun

wedbreach (uncountable)

  1. (rare, dialectal) Adultery.
    • 1897, Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, Love in the Backwoods:
      […] it wasn't wedbreach he minded, that was all in the way o'life; but as for Hiram and hisn, he'd as soon feed a hole in hell as fill their empty stomachs.
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