But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
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Henpeck
/ˈhɛnpɛk/
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He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.
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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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Well, one never hears a woman boast that she henpecks her husband, even though there are many, for the reason that she realizes it is wrong.
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