henpecked

English

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Adjective

henpecked

1. 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)

• Jèrriais: dêbraiesi
• Polish: pod pantoflem (pl)
• Russian: под башмаком (ru) (pod bašmakóm), под каблуком (ru) (pod kablukóm), подкаблучник (ru) (podkablúčnik) (noun)
• Spanish: (Spain) calzonazos (es) m, (Mexico) mandilón (es) m, (Chile) macabeo (es) m, (Bolivia, Río de la Plata) pollerudo (es) m
• Turkish: kılıbık (tr)

See also

• pussywhipped
• under the thumb
• to wear the pants