单词 | henpecked |
释义 | henpecked (once / 29041 pages) adj WORD FAMILY henpecked: henpeckedly USAGE EXAMPLES“I swear, Gitl, that man is already henpecked and not even married to you yet.” Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic(1988) There’s a henpecked businessman who throws Gonda over in favor of toadying to his nagging wife and his harridan of a mother-in-law. New York Times(Aug 10, 2015) He looked like a henpecked husband, a pushover, a sucker. Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War(1974) adj harassed by persistent nagging Syn dominated submissive inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination |
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