adulterer:

A person, male or female, who commits adultery . In his humorous dictionary published as The Penthouse Sexicon (1968), Frederic Mullally defines:

-- Adult: ' Person who is supposed to know what he or she is doing .'

-- Adulterer: ' Person who does it .'

-- Adultery: ' It .'

Quote: Anna (Edra Gale) and her husband Fritz (Peter Sellers) in What's New Pussycat? (1965):
-- Anna: ' Lascivious adulturer! '
-- Fritz Wolfgang Sigismund Fassbender: ' Don't you dare call me that again until I've looked it up .'

See Also: adulterer, adulteress, crime of passion, scarlet letter

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