English Explanatory Dictionary

bitch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
  2. A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
  3. A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
  4. A woman.
  5. A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
  6. An obviously gay man.
  7. A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
  8. A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
  9. a sexual partner
  10. A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
  11. Friend.
  12. A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
verb
  1. To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
  2. To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
  3. To spoil, to ruin.

Pronunciation

bĭch /bɪt͡ʃ/ /bɪʃ/ en-us-bitch.ogg en-uk-bitch.ogg

Word forms

bitch bitches betch biatch biotch beatch beotch bih binch bish biyatch biyotch beeyatch beeyotch bizatch biz-atch biznatch b-word rhymes-with-rich bitching bitched

Etymology

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog”) (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog, bitch”), Old Danish bikke (“bitch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). Related to bicker.

Synonyms

jerk bastard punk gunsel doggess female she-dog cunt assbag assbreath assbucket asscunt assface assfag assfaggot assfuck assfucker asshat asshead asshole assmonkey assmouth assmunch assmuncher asstard asswagon assweed asswipe bag of dicks ball sack ballsucker barf bag berk bitchcunt bitchface bitchfuck bitchwhore blackguard buttface butthead buttmunch buttmuncher choad chunderhead chunk-blower cockbag cockbreath cockface cockfag cockfuck cockfucker cock gobbler cockhead cock-knocker cockmonger cockmunch cockmuncher cocksack cockshit cocksuck

Derived words

bad bitch basic bitch bastich biker bitch bitch and a half bitch-ass bitch bag bitch bath bitchboy bitch breaker bitch burger bitchcakes bitchcraft bitchcunt bitchdom bitch eating crackers bitchery bitchette bitchface bitchfest bitch fight bitchfight bitchfit bitchfucker bitch goddess bitchhood bitch-hound bitch hound bitchin' bitchiness bitching bitchitis bitchless bitchlet bitchlike bitchling bitchload bitchly bitch-made bitch magnet bitchness bitch off bitchola bitch out bitch-out bitch, please bitch seat bitch shield bitch-slap bitch slap bitchslut bitch switch bitch tat bitchtits bitch tits bitch up bitchwad bitchwhore bitch-whore bitchwork
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