English Explanatory Dictionary

rhymes-with-rich

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A bitch.

Word forms

rhymes-with-rich rhymes-with-riches

Etymology

From a reporter’s conversation in 1984 with Barbara Bush, who said of Geraldine Ferraro, “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.” Despite Bush’s later assertion that the word she had been avoiding was witch, the phrase has been generally interpreted as a euphemism for bitch.

Related words

Rhymes:English ɪtʃ for a list of words that rhyme with rich
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