To hector is to bully somebody with loud talk. Hectoring tone, stop hectoring me, a hectoring manner.
The participle is the commoner form, and a hectoring tone is the standard complaint about a politician. It comes from Hector of Troy, whose name was taken up by seventeenth-century London bullies who called themselves after him.
1verbhectorTo bully somebody with loud talk.
“The lawyer hectored the nervous witness until she burst into tears.”
hector is a bullying.
Hector was the great warrior of Troy, and later the word for anyone who swaggers and shouts like one. To hector is to bully somebody with your voice.
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From Hector, the Trojan hero, whose name was adopted by seventeenth-century London gangs.
Proto-Indo-European
*seǵʰ- — to hold; to overpower
Ancient Greek
Ἕκτωρ
Latin
Hectōr
Middle English
Hector — warrior with the qualities of Hector
English, today
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From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hectōr or Ancient Greek Ἕκτωρ, from ἕκτωρ (“holding fast”), from ἔχειν, present active infinitive of ἔχω (“to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European seǵʰ- (“to hold; to overpower”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA