bitch
Meanings
Plural: bitches
Noun
- an unpleasant difficulty
- "this problem is a real bitch"
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- "she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch"
- informal terms for objecting
- female of any member of the dog family
- A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A woman.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- An obviously gay man.
- A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- a sexual partner
- A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
- Friend.
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- A difficult or confounding problem.
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- Place; situation
- Tea (the drink).
- A queen.
Verb
- complain
- say mean things
- To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
- To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
- To spoil, to ruin.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.
Synonyms
;, backbite, badmouth, bastard, beef, bellyache, bitch and moan, bitch out, crab, cunt, doggess, doormat, female, friend, gripe, grouse, grumble, gunsel, holler, jerk, kick, kvetch, moan, pain in the ass, punk, she-dog, shrew, slag off, slave, snipe, squawk, stinker, toughie, whinge
Scrabble Score: 12
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