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bitch

  [bich]
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–noun
1. a female dog.
2. a female of canines generally.
3. Slang.
a. a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, esp. a woman.
b. a lewd woman.
4. Slang.
a. a complaint.
b. anything difficult or unpleasant: The test was a bitch.
c. anything memorable, esp. something exceptionally good: That last big party he threw was a real bitch.
–verb (used without object)
5. Slang. to complain; gripe: They bitched about the service, then about the bill.
–verb (used with object)
6. Slang. to spoil; bungle (sometimes fol. by up): He bitched the job completely. You really bitched up this math problem.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME bicche, OE bicce; c. ON bikkja
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bitch   (bĭch)   
n.  
  1. A female canine animal, especially a dog.
  2. Offensive
    1. A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
    2. A lewd woman.
    3. A man considered to be weak or contemptible.
  3. Slang A complaint.
  4. Slang Something very unpleasant or difficult.
v.   bitched, bitch·ing, bitch·es Slang

v.   intr.
To complain; grumble.
v.   tr.
To botch; bungle. Often used with up.

[Middle English bicche, from Old English bicce.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Bitch

Bitch\, n. [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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : bitch
Spanish: perra, *loba, *zorra,
German: die Hündin, die Wölfin, die Füchsin,
Japanese: 雌犬
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bitch 
O.E. bicce, probably from O.N. bikkjuna "female of the dog" (also fox, wolf, and occasionally other beasts), of unknown origin. Grimm derives the O.N. word from Lapp pittja, but OED notes that "the converse is equally possible." As a term of contempt applied to women, it dates from c.1400; of a man, c.1500, playfully, in the sense of "dog." In modern (1990s, originally black English) slang, its use with ref. to a man is sexually contemptuous, from the "woman" insult.
"BITCH. A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore." ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1811]
The adj. bitchy "bad-tempered" (usually of females) is first attested 1925. The verb meaning "to complain" is at least from 1930, perhaps from the sense in bitchy, perhaps influenced by the verb meaning "to bungle, spoil," which is 1823. But bitched in this sense seems to echo M.E. bicched "cursed, bad," a general term of opprobrium (e.g. Chaucer's bicched bones "(unlucky) dice"), which despite the hesitation of OED, seems certainly to be a derivative of bitch. Insult son of a bitch is O.N. bikkju-sonr. Slang bitchen "good" is first attested 1950s. Bitch-goddess coined 1906 by William James; the original one was success.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: bitch
Pronunciation: 'bich
Function: noun
: the female of the dog or some other carnivorous mammals
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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