henpecked husband informal , auch: hen-pecked husband informal

To offset his reputation on women's rights, he even played the henpecked husband.

"Are you going to make me a henpecked husband even before the wedding?"

"I'm enjoying the hell out of being a henpecked husband."

"That ever I should live to see you a henpecked husband and enjoying it!"

I refuse to have anybody suspect that I'm a henpecked husband.

A henpecked husband and father of four, he is a meek, shuffling milquetoast.

She and her henpecked husband stop at the gas station when their car overheats.

He seems to be quite the henpecked husband; he often gets calls from his wife back home, asking him to go grocery shopping after work.

They had a love marriage and now he is a henpecked husband.

Willie is the henpecked husband - another music hall stable - not entirely silent perhaps.