bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭch
ipa: /bɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: bitches
form: betch
form: biatch
form: biotch
form: beatch
form: beotch
form: bih
form: binch
form: bish
form: biyatch
form: biyotch
form: beeyatch
form: beeyotch
form: bizatch
form: biz-atch
form: biznatch
form: b-word
form: rhymes-with-rich
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.
Senses: examples: text: My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!
text: He had three pet bitches with him.
text: All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.
ref: 1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110:
qualifier: dated or specialised; dog-breeding; dated or specialised; dog-breeding
glosses: A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
glosses: A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: cunt (vulgar, offensive); see also Thesaurus:jerk
text: Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.
text: That bitch almost killed my girlfriend.
text: He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:
text: 'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!' he sneered.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: HASSAN: "You cheap Factualist bitch! Go and never darken my rumpus room again!"
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 83:
text: […] thirty-seven shits, six assholes, two bitches and a bastard. All in all, it's quite possibly the sweariest comedy set in Los Angeles County […]
ref: 2007, J M Tyree, Ben Walters, The Big Lebowski:
hypernyms: arsehole
asshole
;
coordinate_terms: bitcher
qualifier: often sexist
glosses: A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
examples: text: Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?
ref: 1996, “Hit 'Em Up”, in Tupac Shakur and the Outlawz (lyrics), Johnny "J" (music), Hit 'Em Up, performed by 2Pac, California: Death Row Records:
text: Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.
ref: 2003, “If I Can't”, in Curtis Jackson (lyrics), Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:
glosses: A woman.
glosses: A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
glosses: A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
An obviously gay man.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
examples: text: Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.
text: You're so weak-willed with your girlfriend. You must be the real bitch in the relationship.
text: 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.
glosses: A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
glosses: A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
glosses: A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
a sexual partner
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
raw_tags: of a man
examples: text: What’s up, bitch?
text: How my bitches been doin'?
text: I was your bitch!
text: Shut up bitch! I'm the one here.
glosses: Friend.
raw_tags: used with a possessive pronoun
glosses: A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
examples: text: That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?
text: That's a bitch of a question.
glosses: A difficult or confounding problem.
topics: card-games
games
coordinate_terms: butcher
glosses: A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
examples: text: […] 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?
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
text: Karma's a bitch.
text: 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
ref: 2001, “Payback”, in Kerry King (lyrics), God Hates Us All, performed by Slayer:
glosses: Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
examples: text: I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.
glosses: Place; situation
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1824, Gradus Ad Cantabrigiam: Or, New University Guide to the Academical Customs, and Colloquial Or Cant Terms Peculiar to the University of Cambridge, Observing Wherein It Differs from Oxford, page 131:
qualifier: university slang
glosses: Tea (the drink).
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A queen.
Synonyms: sense: female dog, etc
word: doggess
sense: female dog, etc
english: when the species is specified or implied
translation: when the species is specified or implied
word: female
sense: female dog, etc
word: she-dog
sense: malicious, etc, woman
word: shrew
word: jerk
sense: malicious, etc, man
word: bastard
sense: one's friend
word: friend
sense: person in a relationship who is made to adopt a submissive role
word: doormat
sense: person in a relationship who is made to adopt a submissive role
word: slave
sense: man forced into a homoerotic relationship in prison
word: punk
sense: man forced into a homoerotic relationship in prison
word: gunsel
sense: a complaint
word: gripe
sense: a complaint
word: grumble
sense: a complaint
word: kvetch
sense: a complaint
word: moan
sense: a complaint
word: whinge
sense: difficult or confounding problem
word: toughie
sense: difficult or confounding problem
word: stinker
sense: difficult or confounding problem
word: pain in the ass
Hyponyms: brach
a female hound
she-wolf
vixen
a female fox
Derived terms: bad bitch
basic bitch
bastich
biker bitch
bitch and a half
bitch-ass
bitch bag
bitch bath
bitchboy
bitch breaker
bitch burger
bitchcakes
bitchcraft
bitchcunt
bitchdom
bitch eating crackers
bitcher
bitchery
bitchette
bitchface
bitchfest
bitch fight
bitchfight
bitchfit
bitchfucker
bitch goddess
bitchhood
bitch-hound
bitch hound
bitchin'
bitchiness
bitching
bitchitis
bitchless
bitchlet
bitchlike
bitchling
bitchload
bitchly
bitch-made
bitch magnet
bitchness
bitch off
bitchola
bitch-out
bitch out
bitch, please
bitch seat
bitch shield
bitch slap
bitch-slap
bitchslut
bitch switch
bitch tat
bitchtits
bitch tits
bitch up
bitchwad
bitchwhore
bitch-whore
bitchwork
bitchy
bitchy-pants
bitchzilla
black bitch
bottom bitch
bull-bitch
Cumberbitch
cuntbitch
daughter of a bitch
dish bitch
door bitch
drunk as a fiddler's bitch
fembitch
flip a bitch
he-bitch
I'll be a son of a bitch
karma is a bitch
karma's a bitch
kitchen bitch
life's a bitch
life's a bitch and then you die
like a bitch
like a bitch on heat
main bitch
manbitch
megabitch
mollying-bitch
niggerbitch
outbitch
payback is a bitch
payback's a bitch
prison bitch
psychobitch
resting bitch face
ride bitch
she bitch
she-bitch
side bitch
skinny bitch
slitch
slutbitch
snitch bitch
son-of-a-bitching
sonofabitching
son of a bitch
sonofabitch
son of a bitch stew
succubitch
superbitch
unbitch
witch