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wedbreach

wedbreach noun: adultery.

Noun

wedbreach (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal, rare) Adultery.
    • […] 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.1897, Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, Love in the Backwoods

Forms of wedbreach

alternative formwed-breach
alternative formwed breach

Origin of wedbreach

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

Questions about wedbreach

What does wedbreach mean?
Wedbreach means adultery.
What part of speech is wedbreach?
Wedbreach is a noun.

Words near wedbreach in the dictionary

  1. wecks
  2. wed
  3. Wed.
  4. wedana
  5. wedanas
  6. wedbreach
  7. wedbreak
  8. wedbreaks
  9. wedbrek
  10. wedbreks
  11. wedcast

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