Pronunciation
Adjective
henpecked
- Particularly of husbands, plagued or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife.
- The bar became a haven for henpecked husbands to go to commiserate.
Translations
plagued or overwhelmed by one's wife
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 怕老婆的 (cmn) (pàlǎopó-de), 懼內的 (cmn), 惧内的 (cmn) (jùnèi-de)
- Danish: i sin hule hånd (da), tøffelhelt (da)
- Finnish: tossun alla (fi), tossutettu (fi)
- French: jobard (fr) m, la femme porte la culotte (fr), dominé par sa femme (fr)
- German: unter dem Pantoffel (de), Pantoffelheld (de) m
- Hungarian: papucs (hu), tutyimutyi (hu)
- Japanese: 女房天下 (ja) (にょうぼうてんか, nyōbō-tenka), 二本棒 (ja) (にほんぼう, nihonbō), 鼻下長 (ja) (びかちょう, bikachō)
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