henpeckeryn.
/ˈhɛnˌpɛk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈhɛnˌpɛk(ə)ri/ The state or condition of being continually criticized and ordered about by one's wife or female partner. Also: henpecking behaviour.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > henpecked husband > state or condition of being
henpeckery1838
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxvi. 297 He had fallen..to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.
1869 Harper's Mag. Mar. 508/2 Husbands flee from hen-peckery, and wives desert bearish husbands.
1958 Daily Mail 15 July 3/4 Charmian Eyre, thrashing about her with a tongue as thick as it is sharp, remains disarmingly human at the height of henpeckery.
2009 North Shore (Brit. Columbia) News (Nexis) 6 Sept. 7 Dooming himself to a life of henpeckery and endless discussions of what's on sale at Pottery Barn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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