bitch

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  1. noun A female canine animal, especially a dog.
  2. noun Offensive A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
  3. noun Offensive A lewd woman.
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  • Neither sounds like bow-wow, barf-barf, or yap-yap, but there was an Old English word tife “bitch,” and one of the Russian words for “bow-wow” is tiaf-tiaf!
  • If the son of a bitch is alive, what do you want to bet Big Red is with him or knows right where he's at? —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • Bentz had checked But how had Montoya known about Heller That cocky forget-the-rules son of a bitch was a maverick. —  Lisa Jackson - Shiver
  • That made me happy- The son of a bitch was a good fighter. —  Rouge Warrior - Richard Marcinko
  • “I kid you not, that son of a bitch was at least Hey ya, Scotty,” she said and sauntered up beside the two men. —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
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bitch:   bitches
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English bicche, from Old English bicce.

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  1. from Middle English bicche, biche, from Anglo-Saxon bicce, also bicge, = Icelandic bikkja = Norwegian bikkje, a bitch. Cf. German betze, petze, a bitch, and F. biche, a bitch, also a fawn. The relations of these forms are undetermined.
 

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