Significats de hen-peck en anglès

She suffered considerable annoyance at the hands of her husband, although she frequently hen-pecked him.

The number of Northern church-members who are hen-pecked husbands.

In fact, the bishop is hen-pecked.

When not hen-pecking her husband this powerful lady was rearing wild animals or corresponding with the Princess Caroline.

Many marriages are breaking down under stress because "hen-pecking" wives cannot abide failure in their husbands.

Intellectual - hen-pecked you all.

But the husbands who have obtained the degrading name of "hen-pecked";

Talk of being hen-pecked!

In fact I'm the only man on it, which makes me the most hen-pecked spokesman for an RO chapter, he laughs.

He pulled her down on his knee, squeaked "Sorry, dear," in his hen-pecked-husband voice, then kissed her and said, "What an excellent idea."

Sometimes they taunted him with want of courage, and called him a "night-cap" and a "hen-pecked coon," all of which made Nils uncomfortable.

Veteran Corrie producer Bill Podmore wrote in his memoirs: As Jack Duckworth, hen-pecked hubby, would-be Romeo and loser in life, Bill found fame and fortune.