home wrecker
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See also: homewrecker
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
home + wrecker, suggesting the breakup of a household.
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Noun[edit]
home wrecker (plural home wreckers)
- (slang, derogatory) A person who gains the affections of someone already married or engaged, and thus causes the dissolution of the marriage or engagement.
- Synonym: homebreaker
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 55:
- I, unfortunately, was the prey of a vicious, depraved B-girl. In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives. Go investigate that gang and let us alone, you homewrecker.
Hyponyms[edit]
- other man (men only)
- other woman (women only)
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Translations[edit]
one who becomes romantically involved with a married man or woman
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