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.
Dated or specialised; dog-breeding; dated or specialised; dog-breeding
My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!
He had three pet bitches with him.
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All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110:
Offensive, Vulgar 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.
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That bitch almost killed my girlfriend.
He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.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:
'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!' he sneered.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
'This is 007 speaking. This is an open line. It's an emergency. Can you hear me? Pass this on at once. 3030 was a double, working for Redland. 'Yes, dammit, I said "was". The bitch is dead now.'1953, Ian Fleming, “The Bleeding Heart”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 189:
Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?1996, “Hit 'Em Up”, in Tupac Shakur and the Outlawz (lyrics), Johnny "J" (music), Hit 'Em Up, performed by 2Pac, California: Death Row Records:
Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.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:
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Offensive, Vulgar A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
Offensive, Vulgar A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homosexual 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.
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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.
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Colloquial, Vulgar A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
[…] 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?1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19:
Karma's a bitch.
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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 motherfucker2001, “Payback”, in Kerry King (lyrics), God Hates Us All, performed by Slayer:
[…] 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.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:
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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Vulgar To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
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Vulgar 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!
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I ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my grasp Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path.2008, Patterson Hood, The Righteous Path:
Since the good ones are deceased or taken I'll just keep on moanin' and bitchin'2024, “Slim Pickins”, in Short n' Sweet, performed by Sabrina Carpenter, track 9:
'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 162:
"Shy Smile didn't pay off." "I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?"1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 100: