| 单词 | cock-pecked |
| 释义 | > as lemmascock-pecked cock-pecked adj. colloquial (of a woman) domineered over by her husband.Opposed to the more common henpecked adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of wife > who is dominated by husband cock-pecked1753 1753 Ess. Celibacy 96 Male usurpation, or being cock-pecked, depends for the most part on the want of good nature, and a little submission in the female. 1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 1/1 Fortunately these classes are not numerous, otherwise we should be a cock-pecked and hen-pecked generation. 1875 New Q. Mag. July 501 The refuge of cockpecked woman. 1978 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 17 Apr. 20/2 The count orders his cock-pecked wife..to inform Egernien's wife of her husband's infidelity. < as lemmas |
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