bitch
noun
- insult used to insinuate someone is unpleasant, or to compare them to a female dog
- a female dog
verb
- to complain excessively
- to put down, to criticize spitefully
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bɪt͡ʃ/ / /bɪʃ/
noun
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.
- 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.”
- A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
- A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
- 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.”
- A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
- Friend.
“What’s up, bitch?”
“How my bitches been doin'?”
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- A difficult or confounding problem.
“That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?”
“That's a bitch of a question.”
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- 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.”
- Place; situation
“I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.”
- 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.”
- A queen.
verb
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.
- To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
- 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!”
- 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?"”