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CIDE DICTIONARY
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hen-peck

CIDE DICTIONARY

hen-peckv. t. 
     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]

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