henpeckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

hen +‎ peck

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛn.pɛk/

別の表記

• hen-peck, hen peck

動詞

henpeck (三人称単数 現在形 henpecks, 現在分詞 henpecking, 過去形および過去分詞形 henpecked)

1. (chiefly by a wife) To nag persistently.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.

   • 1945, Pierre Paul Ebeyer, Gems of the Vieux Carre, page 77:

     Well, one never hears a woman boast that she henpecks her husband, even though there are many, for the reason that she realizes it is wrong.

派生語

• henpecked

名詞

henpeck (複数形 henpecks)

1. (rare) A man who is meekly subservient to his wife.
   • 1953, B. V. P., Chronicles of Dewan Bahadur, Yama Dharma Rao, page 44:

     One can't swear that Dewan Bahadur Yama Dharma Rao was a henpeck ; nor could be said that the practical Lady was a cockpeck.

名詞

hen-peck (複数形 hen-pecks)

1. Alternative form of henpeck
   • 1978, Edward Frederic Benson, Dodo, page 431:

     "You see, I am a hen-peck," he said.