Wedbreach

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

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”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.