英语词汇henpecked的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

henpecked. The pecking order among hens, according to the famous study made by biologist W. C. Allee, has a definite pres- tige pattern: Hens, like many humans, male and female, freely peck at other hens below their rank and submit to pecking from those above them. Although hens rarely peck at roosters in the barnyard, where the rooster is the cock of the walk, it was widely believed in the 17th century that they often pulled feath- ers from young roosters below them in the pecking order. This led to the comparison of domineering wives to aggressive hens. Samuel Butler defined the term first, Dryden complained that he was henpecked, and Steele called Socrates “the undoubted head of the Sect of the Hen-pecked.” There was even a noun henpeck, for a wife who domineered her husband, and Byron, in Don Juan, wrote his celebrated couplet: “But—oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, / Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck’d you all.” See socratic irony; xanthippe.

词汇	henpecked
词源	henpecked. The pecking order among hens, according to the famous study made by biologist W. C. Allee, has a definite pres- tige pattern: Hens, like many humans, male and female, freely peck at other hens below their rank and submit to pecking from those above them. Although hens rarely peck at roosters in the barnyard, where the rooster is the cock of the walk, it was widely believed in the 17th century that they often pulled feath- ers from young roosters below them in the pecking order. This led to the comparison of domineering wives to aggressive hens. Samuel Butler defined the term first, Dryden complained that he was henpecked, and Steele called Socrates “the undoubted head of the Sect of the Hen-pecked.” There was even a noun henpeck, for a wife who domineered her husband, and Byron, in Don Juan, wrote his celebrated couplet: “But—oh! ye lords of ladies intellectual, / Inform us truly, have they not hen-peck’d you all.” See socratic irony; xanthippe.
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