English Explanatory Dictionary

Jerry Sneak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A henpecked husband.

Word forms

Jerry Sneak Jerry Sneaks

Etymology

After a character in Samuel Foote's The Mayor of Garret, a farce first performed in 1763.

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