亭主

Meaning

1. n
   household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); innkeeper; owner (e.g. of a hotel)
2. n
   husband

Example sentences

• 亭主が女房の尻にしかれるのも当然だ。

  No wonder he is a henpecked husband.

• 酔っ払っておそく家に帰ったかどで、怒った女房は亭主に食ってかかり、箒で亭主をひっぱたいた。

  The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.

• 女房の尻にしかれている亭主は、幸せな独り者に話してはじめて、自分の問題を認識することがたびたびだ。

  Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.