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v. - Bother persistently with trivial complaints.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Hopefully a person who will compliment his Presidency, not one who will continually "hen-peck" and second guess him, all to advance her own agenda.
  • Drawer on the phone with a vertical swipe anywhere on the home screen, rather than having to hen-peck at a tiny on-screen button.
  • I'll read the whole chapter, hen-peck at sentences, write some bits of a scene, zoom out, double check that it fits and there's a purpose to it, zoom back in and...
  • As in hen-peck. heehee
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