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Bitch

//bɪt͡ʃ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. countable, uncountable
"My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!"
2
female of any member of the dog family wordnet
3
A promiscuous woman, slut, whore. archaic, countable, offensive, uncountable
4
informal terms for objecting wordnet
5
A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. countable, offensive, slang, uncountable, vulgar
"Near-synonyms: cunt (vulgar, offensive); see also Thesaurus:jerk"

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6
a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked wordnet
7
A woman. countable, offensive, slang, uncountable, vulgar
"Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?"
8
an unpleasant difficulty wordnet
9
A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar
10
A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way; An obviously gay man. countable, derogatory, offensive, uncountable, vulgar
11
A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship. countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar
"Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself."
12
A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations countable, derogatory, idiomatic, slang, uncountable, vulgar
13
A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations; a sexual partner countable, derogatory, humorous, idiomatic, slang, uncountable, vulgar
14
A playful variation on dog (sense "man"). countable, informal, obsolete, uncountable
15
Friend. colloquial, countable, humorous, uncountable, vulgar
"What’s up, bitch?"
16
A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified. colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar
17
A difficult or confounding problem. colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar
"That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?"
18
A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts. colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar
19
Something unforgiving and unpleasant. countable, figuratively, uncountable, vulgar
"[…] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I thought, what Sammy and I thought, was – why not?"
20
Place; situation countable, informal, slang, uncountable, vulgar
"I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch."
21
Tea (the drink). UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[…] seldom gets "a little the worse for liquor," gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of bitch at night, and goes quietly to bed, and thus he passes his time in a way a Varmint man would despise."
22
A queen. countable, offensive, slang, uncountable, vulgar

Verb

1
To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively. intransitive, vulgar
2
say mean things wordnet
3
To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected. intransitive, vulgar
"All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!"
4
complain wordnet
5
To spoil, to ruin. transitive, vulgar
"'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog”) (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog, bitch”), Old Danish bikke (“bitch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). Related to bicker.

Etymology 2

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