hen-peck

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Verb

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hen-peck (third-person singular simple present hen-pecks, present participle hen-pecking, simple past and past participle hen-pecked)

  1. Alternative form of henpeck
    • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: [] Thomas Davison, [], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
      But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
    • 1876, Emma Jane Worboise, “The Countess at Home”, in Lady Clarissa, London: James Clarke & Co., []; Hodder and Stoughton, [], →OCLC, page 192:
      I don't want to hen-peck you ! Hen-pecking is shocking bad taste. But I won't be a slighted, neglected wife; I have a spirit of my own, and I won't meekly submit to be ignored.
    • 1995, Betty Malz, Women in Tune, page 88:
      We have friends who thought it was cute when their daughter "hen-pecked" her husband. But, when their son married a spicy little gal who tried to hen-peck their son, they were very angry.
    • 2014, Jaqueline Girdner, A Sensitive Kind of Murder:
      Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp.

Noun

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hen-peck (plural hen-pecks)

  1. Alternative form of henpeck
    • 1978, Edward Frederic Benson, Dodo, page 431:
      "You see, I am a hen-peck," he said.