hen-peck
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.21 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of henpeck.
noun
Alternative form of henpeck.
Example Sentences
- "But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?"
- "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."
- "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."
- "Laura didn't have to hen-peck the man; he was a self-made wimp."
- ""You see, I am a hen-peck," he said."