Henpeck - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: henpeckhenpeck
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...
Skimmington
A word employed in the phrase To ride Skimmington that is to ride on a horse with a woman but behind her facing backward carrying a distaff and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man The custom was in vogue in parts of England...
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