bitch

Meanings

Noun

• 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 submissive person who does what others want; a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
• 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

Verb

• To behave or act as a bitch.
• To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
• To spoil, to ruin.

Related

Similar words

• doggess , female , she-dog
• doormat, slave
• punk, gunsel
• gripe, grumble, kvetch, moan, whinge
• toughie, stinker, pain in the ass
• badmouth, slag off , snipe

Narrower meaning words

• brach, a female hound
• vixen, a female fox
• she-wolf

Origin

• From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje ("dog"), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (compare Old Norse bikkja ("plunge into water"), Dutch bikken ("to hack")). More at bicker.