bitchly

adj, adv — 2 senses

bitchly

adj

Etymology From bitch + -ly (adjectival suffix).

1

Of, like, or befitting a bitch (all senses); bitchlike

  • "What a dirty black-hearted bitchly bastard you are," he said bitterly, and sat down in one of the cane-bottomed chairs.1940, Philip Atlee, The Inheritors, page 164:
  • All my drag companions are strictly bitchly, they will only receive.2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 160:
3 more examples
  • “Well, you did get a little bitchly for a minute, amigo. I was thinking about it.”2009, Anthony J. Enciso, The Living and the Dead, volume 1, page 562:
  • “[…] Little devil, she'd just laugh at me. 'Hit me harder, Eddie,' she'd say. Bitchly child always refused to call me Daddy.”2009, William G. Tapply, Dark Tiger, page 174:
  • As I grew I was fully aware that I was a bit bitchlier than any other from around my tribe.2010, Wes Anthony, Binger and Stumpy the B.D. Dawg Series, page 310:

bitchly

adv

Etymology From bitch + -ly (adverbial suffix).

1

In a manner befitting a bitch

  • I wanted to get up and lift her onto the recliner. I wanted to help her get comfortable, perhaps cover her legs with a light blanket. But she was determined, bitchly so, to do most everything herself.1994, Robert Dingwall Zimmerman, Red Trance, page 34:

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