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bitch

Pronunciation: /bɪt͡ʃ/

The English word “bitch” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
  2. A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
  3. A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
  4. A woman in general.
  5. A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
  6. An obviously gay man.
  7. A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship.
  8. A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
  9. Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
  10. A difficult or confounding problem.
  11. Friend.
  12. Place; situation
  13. A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
  14. a sexual partner
  15. A queen playing card or chess piece.
  16. A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
  17. Tea (the drink).

verb

  1. To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
  2. To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
  3. To spoil, to ruin.

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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