All henpeck synonyms
hen·peck
H h verb henpeck
- nag — to annoy by persistent faultfinding, complaints, or demands.
- badger — A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- berate — If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
- bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
- carp — A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- hector — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
- irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pick on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- scold — to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
- torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.