witch

name

1. Acronym of Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell.

   “Late that year the New York Rat covered a feminist demonstration staged by the radical group WITCH (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), whose marchers exorcised money from the financial district and protested exploitive burlesque houses in downtown New York.”

noun

Etymology: Chosen for its euphemistic rhyme.

1. A bitch.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English wicchen, from Old English wiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *wikkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *wik-néh₂-, derivation of *weyk-. In the senses arising in Middle English and later probably aphetic from bewitch.

1. To practise witchcraft.
2. To bewitch.

   “She has witched the Queen's womb long ago, and witched the whole harvest.”

   “The little man was seething and shaking, near collapse with fear and anger. “Tell 'em, Alvy.” “A tenday ago, Will came to the Cockatoo acting crazy, so scared he'd pissed hisself. Said the sorcerer had found him in the stables and witched him.””