unhenpecked

unhenpecked

English

Etymology

un- +‎ henpecked

Adjective

unhenpecked (not comparable)

1. Not henpecked.
   • 1857, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do with It?

     If women knew how to treat men, not a husband, unhenpecked, would be found from Indos to the Pole.

   • 1990, Donald J. Albers, ‎Gerald L. Alexanderson, ‎Constance Reid, More mathematical people: contemporary conversations (page 224)

     But neither of us can think of a solitary case where a woman had a career and managed to have a balanced (mentally) family including an unhenpecked husband.

   • 2014, Gay Talese, The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (page 5)

     They make their world sound as if it were an extension of the Wild West, which in a way it is, with boomers today still regarding themselves as pioneering men, the last of America's unhenpecked heroes […]