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Posted By:
bp22
Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/12/10
03:22 PM
What is the word for a overly compliant or complementary husband to his wife? I have seen it before but cannot recall
Posted By:
TheFallibleFiend
Re: Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/12/10
03:35 PM
Henpecked is one word. There is another, more vulgar, term.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pussywhipped
Posted By:
bp22
Re: Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/12/10
04:14 PM
That is one word but there is another. I also heard of overly fawning over ones own wife as the definition. Still looking.
Posted By:
Faldage
Re: Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/12/10
05:51 PM
Is the adjective
uxorious
?
Posted By:
tsuwm
Re: Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/12/10
06:07 PM
and
uxoriousness
: [n] excessive submissiveness to one's wife
edit: some related words
meacock - (obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man
uxorodespotism - wifely tyranny
link
Posted By:
bp22
Re: Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/12/10
07:01 PM
Uxorious is the word thanks>!
Posted By:
Jackie
Re: Obsequious husband word...help!
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11/13/10
03:56 AM
uxorodespotism
Hey, I kinda like the sound of that!
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