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After a character in Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret, a farce first performed in 1763.
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Today it means: A henpecked husband. Full definition →
After a character in Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret, a farce first performed in 1763.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.