But—Oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck'd you all?
Source: wiktionary
Henpeck
//ˈhɛnpɛk//
Synonyms for "henpeck" (67 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
derived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 唠叨 verb (to nag persistently)
Finnish
1 entries- nalkuttaa verb (to nag persistently)
French
4 entries- barber verb (to nag persistently)
- casser les couilles verb (to nag persistently)
- emmerder verb (to nag persistently)
- faire chier verb (to nag persistently)
Italian
2 entries- importunare verb (to nag persistently)
- punzecchiare verb (to nag persistently)
Māori
2 entries- haku verb (to nag persistently)
- hakuhaku verb (to nag persistently)
Russian
1 entries- держа́ть под каблуком verb (to nag persistently)
Spanish
4 entries- acosar verb (to nag persistently)
- fastidiar verb (to nag persistently)
- hostigar verb (to nag persistently)
- importunar verb (to nag persistently)
Swedish
1 entries- hunsa verb (to nag persistently)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.