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BITCH
bitch
(noun) female of any member of the dog family
gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk
(noun) informal terms for objecting; “I have a gripe about the service here”
cunt, bitch
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
bitch
(noun) an unpleasant difficulty; “this problem is a real bitch”
backbite, bitch
(verb) say mean things
gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
(verb) complain; “What was he hollering about?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bitch (plural bitches)
(dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
(archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
(vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. [from 15th c.]
(vulgar, offensive) A woman.
(vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
(vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship. [from the 20th c]
(obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man"). [from the 16th c]
(humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend. [from the 20th c]
(vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
(colloquial, vulgar, usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
(colloquial) A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
(vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
(vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
Usage notes
• While bitch’s original canine sense permits it to be used in most media, it remains offensive enough that, in the US, it is often minced (as b, b-word, or female dog) in formal contexts.
Synonyms
• (female dog, etc): female (when the species is specified or implied), she-dog
• (malicious, etc, woman): See Thesaurus:shrew
• (malicious, etc, man): See Thesaurus:bastard
• (jocular slang, one's friend): See Thesaurus:friend
• (person in an unfavorable, undesirable position)
• (person in a relationship who is made to adopt a submissive role): doormat, slave
• (man forced into a homoerotic relationship in prison): punk, gunsel
• (a complaint): gripe, grumble, kvetch, moan, whinge
• (difficult or confounding problem): toughie, stinker, pain in the ass
• (to talk about)
Hyponyms
female canine
• brach, a female hound
• vixen, a female fox
• she-wolf
Verb
bitch (third-person singular simple present bitches, present participle bitching, simple past and past participle bitched)
(vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
(vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
(vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.
Synonyms
• (make derogatory comments): badmouth, slag off (UK), snipe
• (complain spitefully): See Thesaurus:complain
Source: Wiktionary
Bitch, n. Etym: [OE. biche, bicche, AS. bicce; cf. Icel. bikkja, G. betze, peize.]
1. The female of the canine kind, as of the dog, wolf, and fox.
2. An opprobrious name for a woman, especially a lewd woman. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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