"hen-peck" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):",
          "text": "But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?",
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          "ref": "1876, Emma Jane Worboise, “The Countess at Home”, in Lady Clarissa, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 192:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1995, Betty Malz, Women in Tune, page 88:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2014, Jaqueline Girdner, A Sensitive Kind of Murder:",
          "text": "Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp.",
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          "ref": "1978, Edward Frederic Benson, Dodo, page 431:",
          "text": "\"You see, I am a hen-peck,\" he said.",
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      "form": "hen-pecked",
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          "ref": "1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):",
          "text": "But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?",
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        },
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          "ref": "1876, Emma Jane Worboise, “The Countess at Home”, in Lady Clarissa, London: James Clarke & Co., […]; Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 192:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "text": "Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp.",
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