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bitchy

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɪt͡ʃi/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English bitch Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bitchy From bitch + -y (adjectival suffix).

  1. Spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant.

    What she said—and what she did—was really bitchy.

    “Israel is trying to get Iran to attack us just like your bitchy ex who tried goading some dude in a bar to fight you,” Tim Pool, the popular rightwing podcaster, wrote on X.

  2. Irritable.

    He’s really bitchy in the morning.

  3. Resembling or characteristic of a female dog.

    Greyhounds (dogs 4, bitches 2): All moderate; the small bitchy-looking Speculation was placed 1st in dogs, and Kate, by Cauld Kail—Graceful, was 1st in bitches, the former taking cup for best in both classes; […]

    […] Hatteraick is good in shape and well feathered, but bitchy in face; […]

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English bitch Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bitchy From bitch + -y (diminutive suffix).

  1. Diminutive of bitch (“a female dog”).

    He was ſtretched upon a ſopha—with boots on—a terrier lay on one ſide of him, and he occaſionally embraced a large hound, which licked his face and hands, while he thus addreſſed it.—“Oh! thou dear bitchy—thou beautiful bitchy—damme, if I don’t love thee better than my mother or my ſiſters.”

    Well, that’s all right, thinks I, and uncommon kind every body was to us—I mean, Gracy and I; and the young missus, a slim, fair-skinn’d girl, with coal-black eyes and hair, and a brow of her own as smooth and white as an ivory fid—ay, as pretty a soul, Mr. Thompson, as you’d wish to look on—she took such a fancy to the poor bitchy, and made me tell about her hangin’ on by my hat, in the surf, so often, that I see’d she was crazy to have the beast; so, knowin’ as such a berth didn’t cast up every day, I told her she might keep Gracy if she was so minded; and, to be sure, how pleased that young woman was, he, he, he! She hugg’d and kiss’d, and laughed and cried over that little black curly devil, all at the same spell; […]