HOME  CN-EN  DE-DE  DE-CN  Forum 
        
Other explains:   leoEN-DE dictyodao googleGoogle wikiWIKI   

您是否查询:



henpeck \hen"peck`\, hen-peck \hen"-peck`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Henpecked}; p. pr. & vb. {Henpecking}.]
To bother persistently with trivial complaints; to subject to
petty authority; -- said of a woman who thus treats her male
companion, especially of wives who thus dominate their
husbands. Commonly used in the past participle (often
adjectively); as, henpecked for years, he finally left her.
[1913 Webster +PJC]