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connotation | pussywhipped |

As a noun connotation

is a meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning a characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

As a verb pussywhipped is

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As a adjective pussywhipped is

(slang|vulgar|of a man) submissive to or dominated by one's wife or other female partner, frequently with the connotation that this submissive behavior is for the prospect of sex.

connotation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
    • The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
  • A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation .
    • The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

    Antonyms

    * denotation

    Synonyms

    * intension

    Related terms

    * connotative * connotatively

    References

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    External links

    pussywhipped

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pussy-whipped * pussy whipped

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 2003 , , quoted by Paul Daley and John Mangan, " Can Becks really get the boot?," The Age , 14 June:
    • "Beckham has been grotesquely, massively pussywhipped by his talentless, ambition-hound of a wife."

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, vulgar, of a man) Submissive to or dominated by one's wife or other female partner, frequently with the connotation that this submissive behavior is for the prospect of sex.
  • * 1993 , , Blue Willow , ISBN 9780553296907, p. 167:
    • "You have bad taste in women if you picked one who doesn't trust you enough to let you keep your friends. Or you must be the most pussy-whipped man in New York."
  • * 2004 , Psycho vs. Psycho, filmthreat.com , 1 Dec. (retrieved 11 Nov 2010):
    • Our first impression of Norman is that he's a nice guy, a little pussywhipped with perhaps a few issues, but nobody dangerous.

    Synonyms

    * (sense, submissive to one's female partner) cowed, henpecked, under the thumb, uxorious, whipped