Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person regarded as thoroughly mean or disagreeable.
- interj. Used to express annoyance, disgust, disappointment, or amazement.
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative, slang An objectionable person.
- n. pejorative, slang Any objectionable thing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
Examples
“The son of a bitch ran," Fein spat out without preamble.”
“You know, where they try to find out whether a son of a bitch really is a son of a bitch," Alva said helpfully.”
“Captain Jim Brass had spent enough time with the Blairs, and people like them, to know that for Arthur Blair to come as close as he had to calling that son of a bitch Pierce a son of a bitch indicated an unfathomable depth of anger toward Owen Pierce.”
“Then in complete frustration over the imeptness of the would-be rescuers and his own inability to do anything about it, he added to his Bear, "Crap, I don't even know where that son of a bitch went now.”
“Has one of them ever had the damn decency to look into the camera and out at all those uplifted, face-lifted masks in the audience and say, ‘I deserve this adulation like a son of a bitch because I followed Satan’s brilliant direction to a T.”
“I wondered what chicken-shitted son of a bitch had sent it.”
“It's you people who let blonds do things the gods didn't mean to have 'em doyou're the traitors, you and that gods-damned son of a bitch of a King Avram.”
“I ran the son of a bitch off with Sid's old hunting rifle.”
“I think this Detective Thelma Fielding is okay, but the sheriff is a pompous son of a bitch with his eye on something else.”
“Jake lit a cigarette, his mind still on Eric Brennerman and how bright the son of a bitch was.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘son of a bitch’.
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metaphoric references to dogs
As an ongoing part of my project, Dogs in Metaphor and Idiom, Illustrated, (www.metaphordogs.org) I am continually adding terms. If you know a term that fi...
dog, alpha male, at bay, bark, bird dog, bitch, bitchin, bloodhound, bulldog, canaille, canines, cerberus and 131 more...
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What is a man?
Masculine archetypes and stereotypes, glorifications and vilifications.
This is in line with Femmesque, though narrower in its aim. I want simply the loaded nouns that denote a man's...cuckold, provider, rapist, messiah, hero, demon lover, animus, the man in the bu..., loser, mr. right, stud, bloke and 18 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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Insults
Well, all insults!
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Favorite Words That Are Really More L...
Culling my Favorite Words That Aren't Really Words list.
sausage fest, brick shithouse, flying spaghetti ..., velly intellesting, chinese firedrill, honkus of the bonkus, acoustic shadow, cheerily cheer up..., jeet yet, grand poobah, sticking it to th..., unbridled mirth and 270 more...
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Swearwords [NSFW]
Favorite things to call people that piss me off or to shout out when enraged. Not all of them are actual swearwords.
fuck, fucking, shit, idiot, motherfucker, cocksucker, bitch, whore, moron, dickhead, douche, douchebag and 44 more...
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angry
Tweets
Looking for tweets for son of a bitch.
bilby Show me your teeth! Nov 18, 2008
reesetee I suspect that many, many Wordies have the same brain space allotment problem. Oct 10, 2007
chained_bear Look, I love arcane knowledge as much as the next wordie, but some facts, and some days, just make me think, "Why the f$%# do I have room for *that* in my brain, and I can't remember whether I have a dentist appointment today?!" Knowing that Jack Ketch was a famous/infamous eighteenth-century London executioner is just one of those facts. Son of a bitch!
Also, on a lighter note, whenever I see/hear this phrase now, I think of it with exactly the same inflection that Lewis Black uses. Oct 10, 2007
reesetee Oh, but those are the best kinds of insanity! Oct 10, 2007
chained_bear Sionnach! You rock!
I'm *so glad* that wasn't just some bizarre insanity that sprang fully formed from my overworked brain... Oct 10, 2007
reesetee Now there's an occupation. Oct 10, 2007
sionnach chained_bear: There is even a word - ketchcraft Oct 9, 2007
chained_bear Wasn't Jack Ketch a famous executioner in London? I think I remember that name from reading Neal Stephenson's novels... Oct 9, 2007
john An early use is attributed to John Shirley:
"There stands Jack Ketch, that Son of a Bitch" (The Triumph of Wit, 1707, as quoted in TLS) Oct 9, 2007