hen-peck

English

Verb

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

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.