bitch

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/bɪt͡ʃ/
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/bɪt͡ʃ/ · /bɪʃ/

Definition of bitch

21 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
    “My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!”
    “He had three pet bitches with him.”
    “All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
    “My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!”
    “He had three pet bitches with him.”
    “All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.”
  2. (archaic, countable, offensive, uncountable)A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
  3. (countable, offensive, slang, uncountable, vulgar)A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
    “Near-synonyms: cunt (vulgar, offensive); see also Thesaurus:jerk”
    “Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.”
    “That bitch almost killed my girlfriend.”
    “He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.”
    “'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!' he sneered.”
  4. (countable, offensive, slang, uncountable, vulgar)A woman.
    “Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?”
    “Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.”
  5. (countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar)A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
  6. (countable, derogatory, offensive, uncountable, vulgar)A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
  7. (countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar)A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
    “Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.”
    “You're so weak-willed with your girlfriend. You must be the real bitch in the relationship.”
    “1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy, season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch.”
  8. (countable, derogatory, idiomatic, slang, uncountable, vulgar)A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
  9. (countable, derogatory, humorous, idiomatic, slang, uncountable, vulgar)A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
  10. (countable, informal, obsolete, uncountable)A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
  11. (colloquial, countable, humorous, uncountable, vulgar)Friend.
    “What’s up, bitch?”
    “How my bitches been doin'?”
    “I was your bitch!”
    “Shut up bitch! I'm the one here.”
  12. (colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar)A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
  13. (colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar)A difficult or confounding problem.
    “That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?”
    “That's a bitch of a question.”
  14. (colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar)A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
  15. (countable, figuratively, uncountable, vulgar)Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
    “[…] 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?”
    “Karma's a bitch.”
    “You've got a fucking catheter in your brain / Pissing your common sense away / When you draw first blood you can't stop this fight / For my own peace of mind, I'm going to / Tear your fucking eyes out, rip your fucking flesh off / Beat you till you're just a fucking lifeless carcass / Fuck you and your progress, watch me fucking regress / You were made to take the fall, now you're nothing / Payback's a bitch motherfucker”
  16. (countable, informal, slang, uncountable, vulgar)Place; situation
    “I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.”
  17. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Tea (the drink).
    “[…] 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.”
  18. (countable, offensive, slang, uncountable, vulgar)A queen.

verb

  1. (intransitive, vulgar)To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
  2. (intransitive, vulgar)To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
    “All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!”
    “All you ever do is bitch at me!”
    “I ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my grasp Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path.”
    “Since the good ones are deceased or taken I'll just keep on moanin' and bitchin'”
  3. (transitive, vulgar)To spoil, to ruin.
    “'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'”
    “"Shy Smile didn't pay off." "I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?"”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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.

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