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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
bitch       [bich] Pronunciation Key
–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)  Pronunciation Key 
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.]

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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.

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bitch

noun
1. an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch" 
2. a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; "she said her son thought [that woman] was a bitch" [syn: cunt
3. informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here" [syn: gripe
4. female of any member of the dog family 

verb
1. complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe
2. say mean things [syn: backbite

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

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