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Definition of henpecked in English Turkish dictionary
- kılıbık
- {s} hanımköylü
- henpecked husband
- kılıbık koca
- henpeck
- dır dır etmek
- henpeck
- vır vır etmek
- henpeck
- başının etini yemek
- henpeck
- henpecked kılıbık
- henpeck
- karısından korkan
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Definition of henpecked in English English dictionary
- Particularly of husbands, plagued or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife
The bar became a haven for henpecked husbands to go to commiserate.
- {a} governed by a wife, dejected, mean
- harassed by persistent nagging
- a man who is henpecked is always being told what to do by his wife, and is afraid to disagree with her
- {s} intimidated, being nagged
- henpeck
- To nag persistently
Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, / Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?.
- henpeck
- to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances
- henpeck
- Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively)
- henpeck
- {f} (about a wife) intimidate or bully one's husband
- henpeck
- To subject to petty authority; said of a wife who thus treats her husband
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henpecked
Turkish pronunciation
henpektSynonyms
subjected to nagging, browbeaten, intimidated, passive, constrained, compliant, yielding, acquiescent, obedient, resigned, submissive, wife-ridden, docile, meek, unresistingPronunciation
/ˈhenˌpekt/ /ˈhɛnˌpɛkt/
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