Definitions for henpecked

henpecked hen·pecked

Spelling: [hen-pekt]
IPA: /ˈhɛnˌpɛkt/

Henpecked is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in henpecked (cdeeehknp).

Definitions for henpecked

adjective

  1. browbeaten, bullied, or intimidated by one's wife, girlfriend, etc.:

verb (used with object)

  1. to browbeat, bully, or intimidate (one's husband, boyfriend, etc.).

Origin of henpecked

First recorded in 1670-80; hen + peck2 + -ed2

Examples for henpecked

One danger is that women will be henpecked by men who now claim that unprotected sex is medically safe.

I had heard of henpecked husbands and now I felt that I saw one.

Certainly you never could have henpecked me into Congress the way you did Jim Walton!

Take it he was henpecked when he married, and Madam Esmond took the spirit out of him when she got him in her island.

His neighbours used to say of him, "The puir body's henpecked."

People said that Squire Hall was henpecked; they also said that he had married beneath him.

There are henpecked husbands, it has been remarked, even in aboriginal Australia.

I am prepared to become an awful example of a henpecked husband.

I had the gout, my wife was a shrew, and I was—a henpecked husband.

It was, she said, just the opposite—she who had been henpecked.

Word Value for henpecked
Scrable

21

Words with friends

23

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