Wedbreach
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Adultery. dialectal, rare, uncountable
"[…] 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."
Synonyms
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More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
From wed + breach. Compare English spousebreach (“adultery”), Old English ǣwbryċe (“adultery”).
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