"henpecked" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈhɛnpɛkt/ Audio: en-us-henpecked.ogg Forms: more henpecked [comparative], most henpecked [superlative]
Etymology: From hen + pecked. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hen|pecked}} hen + pecked Head templates: {{en-adj}} henpecked (comparative more henpecked, superlative most henpecked)
  1. (particularly of husbands or boyfriends) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing matriarch, wife, or girlfriend. Categories (topical): Marriage Synonyms: pussywhipped, under the thumb, uxorious Related terms: mother hen [noun], mother-hen [verb], wear the pants Translations (plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife): bajoc [masculine] (Catalan), calçasses [masculine, noun] (Catalan), 怕老婆的 (pàlǎopó de) (Chinese Mandarin), 懼內的 (Chinese Mandarin), 惧内的 (jùnèi de) (Chinese Mandarin), pod pantoflem (Czech), i sin hule hånd (Danish), tøffelhelt (Danish), tossun alla (Finnish), tossutettu (Finnish), jobard [masculine] (French), la femme porte la culotte (French), dominé par sa femme (French), unter dem Pantoffel (German), Pantoffelheld (english: a henpecked husband) [masculine] (German), papucs (Hungarian), tutyimutyi (Hungarian), soggiogato (Italian), sottomesso (Italian), plagiato (Italian), asservito (Italian), 女房天下 (nyōbō tenka) (alt: にょうぼうてんか) (Japanese), 二本棒 (nihonbō) (alt: にほんぼう) (Japanese), 鼻下長 (bikachō) (alt: びかちょう) (Japanese), uxorius (Latin), папучар (papučar) [masculine] (Macedonian), dêbraiesi (Norman), tøffelhelt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), زنذلیل (zan-zalil) (Persian), pod pantoflem (Polish), pantoflarz [masculine] (Polish), pozbadnięty [regional] (Polish), mandado (Portuguese), под башмако́м (pod bašmakóm) (Russian), под каблуко́м (pod kablukóm) (Russian), подкаблу́чник (podkablúčnik) [noun] (Russian), fo mhaide na poite (Scottish Gaelic), piteag (english: a henpecked man) [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), calzonazos [Spain, masculine] (Spanish), planchabragas [masculine] (Spanish), mandilón [Mexico, masculine] (Spanish), macabeo [Chile, masculine] (Spanish), pollerudo [Bolivia, Río-de-la-Plata, masculine] (Spanish), pisado [Peru] (Spanish), toffel [common-gender] (Swedish), toffelhjälte [common-gender] (Swedish), tofflad (Swedish), kılıbık (Turkish)
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    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "calçasses"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pàlǎopó de",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "怕老婆的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "懼內的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jùnèi de",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "惧内的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "pod pantoflem"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "i sin hule hånd"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "tøffelhelt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "tossun alla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "tossutettu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jobard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "la femme porte la culotte"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "dominé par sa femme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "unter dem Pantoffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "a henpecked husband",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Pantoffelheld"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "papucs"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "tutyimutyi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "soggiogato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "sottomesso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "plagiato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "asservito"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にょうぼうてんか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nyōbō tenka",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "女房天下"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にほんぼう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nihonbō",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "二本棒"
    },
    {
      "alt": "びかちょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bikachō",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "鼻下長"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "uxorius"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "papučar",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "папучар"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "dêbraiesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tøffelhelt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "zan-zalil",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "زنذلیل"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "pod pantoflem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pantoflarz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "regional"
      ],
      "word": "pozbadnięty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "mandado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pod bašmakóm",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "под башмако́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pod kablukóm",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "под каблуко́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podkablúčnik",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "подкаблу́чник"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "fo mhaide na poite"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "english": "a henpecked man",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "piteag"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calzonazos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "planchabragas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "Mexico",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mandilón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "Chile",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "macabeo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "Bolivia",
        "Río-de-la-Plata",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pollerudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "Peru"
      ],
      "word": "pisado"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "toffel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "toffelhjälte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "tofflad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife",
      "word": "kılıbık"
    }
  ],
  "word": "henpecked"
}

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