home wrecker

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Etymology

home +‎ wrecker, suggesting the breakup of a household.

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home wrecker (plural home wreckers)

  1. (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.
    • 2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140:
      Knots Landing surged even higher in the ratings once Donna Mills was added as the neighborhood home wrecker Abby.

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