hectors

We have found lemma(root) word of hectors : hector.

Definitions


[ˈhɛktə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- talk to (someone) in a bullying way
(e.g: she doesn't hector us about giving up things)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from the Trojan warrior Hector. Originally denoting a hero, the sense later became ‘braggart or bully’ (applied in the late 17th century to a member of a gang of London youths), hence ‘talk to in a bullying way’


[ˈhɛktə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a Trojan warrior, son of Priam and Hecuba and husband of Andromache. He was killed by Achilles, who dragged his body behind his chariot three times round the walls of Troy


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