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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A female canine animal, especially a dog.
  2. n. Offensive A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
  3. n. Offensive A lewd woman.
  4. n. Offensive A man considered to be weak or contemptible.
  5. n. Slang A complaint.
  6. n. Slang Something very unpleasant or difficult.
  7. v. To complain; grumble.
  8. v. To botch; bungle. Often used with up.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The female of the dog; also, by extension, the female of other canine animals, as of the wolf and fox.
  2. n. A coarse name of reproach for a woman.
  3. n. plural A set of three chains for slinging pipes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A female dog or other canine. In particular one who has recently had puppies.
  2. n. colloquial A complaint.
  3. n. colloquial, usually only used in the singular A difficult or confounding problem.
  4. n. colloquial A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
  5. n. figuratively Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
  6. v. intransitive To behave or act as a bitch.
  7. v. transitive (Should we delete(+) this sense?) To make derogatory comments.
  8. v. transitive To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
  2. n. An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman.
  3. n. an unpleasant, malicious, or offensive person.
  4. n. slang something difficult or unpleasant.
  5. n. slang a complaint.
  6. v. slang to complain in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. say mean things
  2. n. female of any member of the dog family
  3. n. an unpleasant difficulty
  4. n. informal terms for objecting
  5. v. complain.
  6. n. a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-Germanic *bikjōn (compare Norwegian bikkja ("dog"), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjanan (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja ("plunge into water"), Dutch bikken ("to hack")). More at bicker. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English bicche, from Old English bicce. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (27)

Words with the same meaning

  1. <er>complaint</er
  2. gripe
  3. dog
  4. slut
  5. lady
  1. brach
  2. brachet
  3. female
  4. cow
  5. harpy
  1. bastard
  2. doormat
  3. grumble
  4. whinge
  5. moan
  1. kvetch
  2. toughie
  3. pain in the ass
  4. stinker
  5. complain
  1. slag off
  2. snipe
  3. badmouth
  4. qualifier
  5. whine
  1. sniff at
  2. piss and moan

hypernyms (10)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. sound off
  2. kick
  1. quetch
  2. complain
  1. plain
  2. kvetch
  1. difficulty
  2. objection
  1. unpleasant person
  2. disagreeable person

same context (22)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. bastard
  2. slut
  3. ass
  4. whore
  1. brat
  2. puppy
  3. wretch
  4. brute
  1. shit
  2. wench
  3. sonofabitch
  4. scoundrel
  1. fool
  2. witch
  3. hound
  4. idiot
  1. kid
  2. pig
  3. beast
  4. villain
  1. dog
  2. devil

rhymes (32)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Fitch
  2. Ich
  3. Mich
  4. Mitch
  5. Rich
  6. Ritch
  1. bewitch
  2. ditch
  3. enrich
  4. fitch
  5. glitch
  6. hitch
  1. ich
  2. itch
  3. kitsch
  4. lich
  5. mich
  6. mitch
  1. niche
  2. piche
  3. pitch
  4. rich
  5. riche
  6. snitch
  1. stich
  2. stitch
  3. switch
  4. twitch
  5. unhitch
  6. which
  1. wich
  2. witch

reverse dictionary (11)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. brood bitch
  2. whelp
  1. brach
  2. pup
  1. broody
  2. SOB
  1. slut
  2. spay
  1. dog
  2. litter
  1. menses

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  1. impolite
  1. offensive
  1. use carefully
  1. informal
  1. female
  1. weirdnet

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Words tagged ‘bitch’

  1. biatch

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  • bilby In Tokyo. Sep 30, 2009

  • kewpid Speaking of chemistry, Boron, Iodine, Technetium, Hydrogen: BITcH Jun 27, 2008

  • plethora I've seen it used with WeirdNet's definition.
    As in, "Omg, this Chemistry assignment is a bitch!"

    I have also been guilty of using bitchin' to describe things that are good as well as things that are bad. Apr 3, 2008

  • bilby "It was June 10th, six-thirty in the evening, plenty of light left in the sky. Summer, that beautiful green bitch, had ridden into Maine again."
    - 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007

  • seanahan It is the "bitch seat", "riding bitch" is short for "riding in the bitch seat". Dec 20, 2007

  • uselessness Isn't "riding bitch" a verb? Like, "I had to ride bitch in Jack's Miata"? Dec 19, 2007

  • arcadia seanahan, I once saw a very small car park and 7 college guys get out. One who had emerged from the back seat was rubbing his neck and mumbled, "dude, shotgun" the way you'd utter dying words. Hilarious. I guess he was the "riding bitch" of which you speak. Dec 19, 2007

  • arcadia Well said, samoritan! Dec 19, 2007

  • seanahan The same as in "Life's a bitch". I also like riding the usage, "riding bitch", describing being the one stuck in the middle backseat of a car. Dec 19, 2007

  • uselessness I like WeirdNet's definition of it, too. Dec 18, 2007

  • samoritan This is the word I love to hate. It has gone from meaning a female dog to a vulgar reference to a angry woman to a mainstream reference for an upwardly-moble woman. Lately I heard it used as a non-gender reference for someone who does general tasks ("He is the office bitch.") Altho I personally wouldn't use it, "Bitch" is a truly amazing example of the organic ability of language to change in context over time. Dec 18, 2007

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