Crossword clues for henpecked
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 who thus dominate their husbands. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively); as, henpecked for years, he finally left her.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Particularly of husbands, plagued or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife.
WordNet
adj. harassed by persistent nagging [syn: dominated]
Wikipedia
Henpecked is a 1930 animated short produced by Walter Lantz that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
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.