Reverse Dictionary: ADULTERY

ADJECTIVES
► ADULTERATED guilty of adultery → 1607 obs.
► ADULTERINE 1. born of adultery → 1751 
2. relating to adultery → 1865 
► ADULTEROUS born in adultery → 1593 obs.
► BACK-DOOR adulterous → 1947 US sl.
► STUPROUS adulterous; given to adultery or whoredom, whorish → 1603 obs.
► VOUTERISH adulterous, lewd → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► BACK-DOOR ACTION adultery → 1978 Amer. sl.
► BACK-DOORING adultery → 1981 Amer. sl.
► CRIMINAL CONVERSATION adultery; unlawful sexual intercourse with a married person → 1716 
► CUCKOLDOM a dishonouring of a husband by adultery with or on the part of his wife → 1681 obs.
► CUCKOLDRY a dishonouring of a husband by adultery with or on the part of his wife → 1529 
► EAUBRUCHE adultery → 1000 obs.
► EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES adultery → 20C colloq.
► HANKY-PANKY adultery; illicit sexual activity → 1938 Brit. & US sl.
► INFIDELITY adultery or other sexual unfaithfulness → 1529 
► LAIRWITE a fine for adultery or fornication, esp. with a bondwoman → 1230 Old Law usage
► MECHATION adultery; fornication; whoredom → 1656 obs.
► PUTERY adultery; promiscuity; prostitution; usually used of women → 1390 obs.
► SCARLET LETTER a scarlet letter “A”, formerly worn by one convicted of adultery → 1840 Amer.
► SPOUSE-BREACH adultery → 1225 obs.
► TRYSTING-OUT a clandestine meeting between a married man and a married woman who are not married to each other → 1952 Amer. dial.
► VOUTRY adultery → 1382 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► EAUBREKERE an adulterer → 1175 obs.
► HORELING an adulterer; a fornicator, a whoremonger; a paramour → 1200 obs.
► HOLOUR an adulterer; a fornicator, a whoremonger; a debauchee, ribald, scoundrel → 1230 obs.
► SPOUSE-BREACH an adulterer → 1315 obs.
► ADVOUTRER ► AVOUTERER í AVOWTER ► AVOWTRER an adulterer → 1370 obs.
► ADULTER ► ADVOUTOUR ► ADVOUTRE ► AVOUTER an adulterer → 1382 obs.
► ADVOUTRESSE ► ADVOUTRICE ► AVOUTRESSE ► AVOWTRESSE an adulteress → 1382 obs.
► VOUTER an adulterer → 1386 obs.
► WITTOL a man who tolerates his wife’s adultery → 1500 obs.
► BELSWAGGER an adulterer; a whoremonger, a womanizer, a pimp; a lewd man → 1592 obs.
► BED-SWERVER an adulterer; a person unfaithful to the marriage bed → 1611 obs.
► ADULTERATOR an adulterer; a person who defiles by adultery → 1632 obs.
► WED-BREAK an adulterer → 1770 obs.
► FANCY MAN a woman’s lover, often adulterous → 1811 sl., derogatory
► FANCY GIRL the woman with whom a married man is having an affair → 1812 sl.
► CREEPER an adulterer → 1911 African-American
► BACK-DOOR MERCHANT an adulterer → 1920 sl., orig. African-American
► BACK-DOOR HUSBAND an adulterer → 1925 sl., orig. African-American
► ONCER a woman who has had many brief affairs → 1930 US sl.
► BOW-TIE a married woman’s lover → 1940 NZ sl.
► FREELANCE an adulterous woman → 19C sl.
► FREEMAN a man who is free and easy with his affections, an adulterer → 18C sl.
► SHACK MAN an adulterous man → 1940 US sl.
► SHACK RAT an adulterous man → 1940 US sl.
► BACK MAN an adulterer → 1942 sl., orig. African-American
► CABRON a man who consents to the adultery of his wife → 1945 US West. sl. (Bk.)
► BACK-DOOR MAN an adulterous male lover → 1969 Amer. sl.
► CABRON an adulteress → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
► GALLANT a woman’s extramarital sexual partner → 1971 euphemism
► SCRUMPER an adulterer → 1980 US students’ sl..
► SNEAKY MAN a married woman’s adulterous sexual partner → 1982 Bahamas sl.

PHRASES
► EATIN’ AIN’T CHEATIN’ a jocular assertion that oral sex does not rise to the level of adultery or infidelity → 1994 US sl.

VERBS
► ADULTER ► ADVOUTER ► AVOUTRE to commit or practice adultery → 1400 obs.
► BYHORE to commit adultery against → 1440 obs.
► ADULTERATE to commit or practice adultery → 1595 obs.
► CUCKLE to commit adultery → 17C Brit. & Amer. dial.
► ADULTERIZE to commit adultery → 1611 arch.
► BREAK MATRIMONY to commit adultery → 1526 obs.
► DEFILE THE MARRIAGE-BED to commit adultery → 1712 
► VIOLATE THE MARRIAGE-BED to commit adultery → 1712 
► FOOL AROUND  to engage in an extramarital romance → L19 sl.
► CARRY ON to be involved in an adulterous or  flirtatious relationship → 1856 UK sl.
► USE WOMEN to commit adultery or fornication → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PLAY IN SOMEONE ELSE’S YARD to have an adulterous affair → 1950 African-American sl.
► TAKE A SLICE OFF A CUT CAKE to commit adultery → 1960 Aust. sl.
► CHASE to pursue women, esp. as an adulterer → 1970 US sl.
► SCRUMP to engage in an adulterous sexual relationship → 1980 US students’ sl.
► BACK-DOOR to commit adultery → 1982 US sl.