hen-peck

present singular third person hen-pecks · participle present hen-pecking · participle past hen-pecked · past hen-pecked

1. alternativeAlternative form of henpeck.

   Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp.

   2014, Jaqueline Girdner, A Sensitive Kind of Murder

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   But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?

   1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number)

   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.

   1876, Emma Jane Worboise, “The Countess at Home”, in Lady Clarissa, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 192

   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.

   1995, Betty Malz, Women in Tune, page 88

plural hen-pecks

1. alternativeAlternative form of henpeck.

   "You see, I am a hen-peck," he said.

   1978, Edward Frederic Benson, Dodo, page 431