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henpecked
[ hen-pekt ]
adjective
- browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.:
a henpecked husband who never dared to contradict his wife.
henpecked
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adjective
- (of a man) continually harassed or tormented by the persistent nagging of a woman (esp his wife)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of henpecked1
Example Sentences
He went on to star in the spin-off George and Mildred, in which Murphy played a henpecked George Roper opposite fellow Theatre Workshop actress Yootha Joyce as his wife.
Spryly hilarious, Kelly lends the henpecked husband’s subversive streak a bumbling gentleness.
I was raised by a sweet henpecked father, who would have said something disparaging about himself to get me to help him with his computer or read tiny print.
Michael Burlingame, a professor of history at the University of Illinois Springfield, said that other than treating Lincoln as a “classic henpecked husband,†at face value there’s nothing funny about Mary Todd Lincoln.
A henpecked husband looks to his talking dog for consolation.
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