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English
Verb
hen-peck (third-person singular simple present hen-pecks, present participle hen-pecking, simple past and past participle hen-pecked)
- 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
hen-peck (plural hen-pecks)
- Alternative form of henpeck
1978, Edward Frederic Benson, Dodo, page 431:"You see, I am a hen-peck," he said.