bitch

My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!

All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.

1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110:

(dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

dated or specialised; dog-breeding; dated or specialised; dog-breeding

(archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.

Coordinate term: bitcher

Near-synonyms: cunt (vulgar, offensive); see also Thesaurus:jerk

Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.

He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:

'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!' he sneered.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

HASSAN: "You cheap Factualist bitch! Go and never darken my rumpus room again!"

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 83:

en:despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman

(vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.

Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?

1996, “Hit 'Em Up”, in Tupac Shakur and the Outlawz (lyrics), Johnny "J" (music), Hit 'Em Up, performed by 2Pac, California: Death Row Records:

Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.

2003, “If I Can't”, in Curtis Jackson (lyrics), Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:

(vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way

(LGBTQ, slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.

Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.

You're so weak-willed with your girlfriend. You must be the real bitch in the relationship.

1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy, season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company
Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch.

(vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.

(obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").

What’s up, bitch?

How my bitches been doin'?

I was your bitch!

Shut up bitch! I'm the one here.

(humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.

(vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.

That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?

That's a bitch of a question.

(colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.

Coordinate term: butcher

(colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.

[…] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I thought, what Sammy and I thought, was – why not?

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:

Karma's a bitch.

(vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.

I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.

(vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation

[…] seldom gets "a little the worse for liquor," gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of bitch at night, and goes quietly to bed, and thus he passes his time in a way a Varmint man would despise.

1824, Gradus Ad Cantabrigiam: Or, New University Guide to the Academical Customs, and Colloquial Or Cant Terms Peculiar to the University of Cambridge, Observing Wherein It Differs from Oxford, page 131:

(UK, obsolete, university slang) Tea (the drink).

(chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.

en-noun

bitch (countable and uncountable, plural bitches)

female

when the species is specified or implied

doormat

person in a relationship who is made to adopt a submissive role

punk

man forced into a homoerotic relationship in prison

→ Dutch: bitch

→? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze

→ French: bitch

kurvë

disagreeable, aggressive person, usually female

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.


bitch

(vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.

All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!

All you ever do is bitch at me!

I ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my grasp
Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path.

2008, Patterson Hood, The Righteous Path:

(vulgar, intransitive) To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.

'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'

1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 162:

"Shy Smile didn't pay off." "I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?"

1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 100:

en-verb

bitch (third-person singular simple present bitches, present participle bitching, simple past and past participle bitched)

bitches (present singular third-person)
bitching (participle present)
bitched (participle past)
bitched (past)