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According to
The Word Museum
,
chicken-pecked
is being "[u]nder the rule of a child, as
hen-pecked
[is] under the rule of a woman."
Shouldn't it be chick-pecked?
Last edited by trichobezoar; 01-09-2015 at
08:51 AM
. Reason: Edited grammar.
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