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henpecked
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Word definitions for henpecked in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Particularly of husbands, plagued or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. harassed by persistent nagging [syn: dominated ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Henpecked is a 1930 animated short produced by Walter Lantz that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, an image from hen + peck (v.).\nThe henpect Man rides behind his Wife, and lets her wear the Spurs and govern the Reins. [Samuel Butler]\nThe verb henpeck (1680s) apparently is a back-formation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
henpeck \hen"peck`\, hen-peck \hen"-peck`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Henpecked ; p. pr. & vb. Henpecking .] To bother persistently with trivial complaints; to subject to petty authority; -- said of a woman who thus treats her male companion, especially of wives ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife. ▪ In some polygamous species, such as the patas monkey, the males become henpecked . ▪ Rip Van Winkle, a kindly, lazy, henpecked man, set out for a ...
Usage examples of henpecked.
That henpecked monarch, instead of strangling his brother Teyaspa in the approved Turanian manner, has been prevailed upon to keep him cooped up in a castle deep in the Colchian Mountains, southeast of Vilayet, as a prisoner of the Zaporoskan brigand Gleg.
I have a very clear memory of a golden afternoon when the butler was instructing me in the etiquette of a great house, Henpecked Ho's beloved wife and her seven fat sisters were sipping tea in the Garden of Forty Felicitous Fragrances, Fainting Maid was insulting the intelligence of her ladies-in-waiting in the Gallery of Precious Peacocks, and the Ancestress was chiding a servant who had dropped a cup on the Terrace of Sixty Serenities.
No drachma but had its other side: Andromeda in my opinion had near henpecked me out of cockhood.
Everywhere Grimmy and Winger went, it boomed out off-key operatic arias about henpecked top gods, brothers who plooked their sisters in order to create psychopathic, dwarf-murdering heroes who tended to forget that they were married to defrocked, doomed, and not very bright Choosers of the Slain.
As it is, she must scrape by earning maybe a tenth of what the male instructor pulls down, giving lessons to a small number of addled or henpecked stumblebums like Randy Waterhouse.