English

hothusband

Compound of hot + husband, modelled on earlier hotwife.

A compound of hot + husband

Proto-Indo-European *keHy- ‘to heat; to become hot’

Proto-Germanic *haitaz ‘hot’

Proto-West Germanic *hait

Old English hāt ‘hot’

Middle English hot

English hot

Old English hūsbonda ‘master of the house’

Middle English husbonde ‘a husband’

The story

Compound of hot + husband, modelled on earlier hotwife.

noun A husband who has sex with people other than his spouse, with the spouse's approval.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hothusband