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bedswerver

noun

Etymology

From bed + swerver.

  1. inherited from *swerbʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *swerbaną✻
  3. inherited from sweorfan
  4. inherited from swerven
  5. suffixed as swerver — “swerve + er”
  6. compounded as bedswerver — “bed + swerver”

Definitions

  1. Someone who commits adultery

    Someone who commits adultery; an unfaithful spouse.

    • [S]hee’s / A Bed‑swaruer, euen as bad as those / That Vulgars giue bold’st Titles […].
    • Before she said aught a word I knew that she was a bedswerver, aiming to sweep out from her hubby's cot into mine […].

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA