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.