henpeck

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To nag persistently.

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

2. fiil to peck or peck at another bird.

   “Mrs Allsop and her bar-blue brother travelled well together in good times, but after they ducketed she would chase him from niche to niche, henpecking him while Monte tried to collar them and collect their rings.”

3. isim A man who is meekly subservient to his wife.

   “One can't swear that Dewan Bahadur Yama Dharma Rao was a henpeck ; nor could be said that the practical Lady was a cockpeck.”