different between husband vs henpecked

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?z.b?nd/

Etymology

From Middle English husbonde, housbonde, from Old English h?sbonda, h?sbunda (“male head of a household, householder, master of a house”), from Old Norse húsbóndi (“master of house”), from hús (“house”) + bóndi (“dweller, householder”), equivalent to house +? bond (“serf, slave", originally, "dweller”).

Bond in turn represents a formation derived from the present participle of West Scandinavian búa, East Scandinavian bôa = to build, plow; compare German bauen, der Bauende. Cognate with Icelandic húsbóndi (“head of household”), Faroese húsbóndi (“husband”), Norwegian husbond (“head of household, husband”), Swedish husbonde (“master”), Danish husbond (“husband”) (< Old Danish husbonde).

Noun

husband (plural husbands)

1. The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
2. A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
   • 1627, George Hakewill, An Apologie Or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the Government of the World

     The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields

   • He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.

3. A prudent or frugal manager.
4. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.

   • The husband and wife are one person in law.

   • A great bargain also had been […] the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
5. The male of a pair of animals.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. (Britain) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
7. A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.

8. (Britain dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:husband

Antonyms

• wife

Hypernyms

• wedder
• partner (may or may not be married)
• spouse (may also apply to wife)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ???? (h?iq? b?ndèng) (obsolete)
• ? Japanese: ????? (hazubando)
  • ? English: husbando

Translations

Verb

husband (third-person singular simple present husbands, present participle husbanding, simple past and past participle husbanded)

1. (transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
2. (transitive) To conserve.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

   • Land so trim and rarely husbanded.

4. (transitive) To provide with a husband.
5. (transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

Derived terms

• husbandable
• husbandry

Translations

Middle English

Noun

husband (plural husbands)

1. Alternative form of husbonde

Swedish

Etymology

hus (“house”) +? band (“band”)

Noun

husband n

1. a group of musicians who regularly play live in a TV show

Declension

English

Etymology

hen +? pecked

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?np?kt/
• Hyphenation: hen?pecked

Adjective

henpecked (comparative more henpecked, superlative most henpecked)

1. (particularly of husbands or boyfriends) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing wife or girlfriend.
   • 1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884).

     "I noticed that he addressed her as 'My dear,' very genially, without any trace of resentment.... The quickness of the transition made me vaguely ask myself whether he were henpecked,—a shocking conjecture, which I instantly dismissed."

Synonyms

• pussywhipped
• under the thumb
• uxorious

Translations

See also

• mother-hen
• to wear the pants