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bitch

nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //bɪt͡ʃ//
  • //bɪʃ//

A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

noun

  1. 1

    A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.

    My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!

    He had three pet bitches with him.

    All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.

  2. 2

    archaicA promiscuous woman, slut, whore.

  3. 3

    A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.

    Near-synonyms: cunt (vulgar, offensive); see also Thesaurus:jerk

    Ann spread rumors about me; she's such a bitch.

    That bitch almost killed my girlfriend.

    He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.

  4. 4

    slangA woman in general.

    Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?

    Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.

  5. 5

    A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way

  6. 6

    A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way An obviously gay man.

  7. 7

    A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship.

    Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.

    You're so weak-willed with your girlfriend. You must be the real bitch in the relationship.

    1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy, season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch.

  8. 8

    A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.

  9. 9

    figurativeSomething unforgiving and unpleasant.

    […] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I thought, what Sammy and I thought, was – why not?

    Karma's a bitch.

  10. 10

    A difficult or confounding problem.

    That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?

    That's a bitch of a question.

  11. 11

    slangFriend.

    What’s up, bitch?

    How my bitches been doin'?

    I was your bitch!

    Shut up bitch! I'm the one here.

  12. 12

    Place; situation

    I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.

  13. 13

    slangA female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations

  14. 14

    slangA female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations a sexual partner

  15. 15

    slangA queen playing card or chess piece.

  16. 16

    informalA playful variation on dog (sense "man").

  17. 17

    obsoleteTea (the drink).

    […] seldom gets "a little the worse for liquor," gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of bitch at night, and goes quietly to bed, and thus he passes his time in a way a Varmint man would despise.

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.

verb

  1. 1

    To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.

  2. 2

    To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.

    All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!

    All you ever do is bitch at me!

    I ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my grasp Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path.

    Since the good ones are deceased or taken I'll just keep on moanin' and bitchin'

  3. 3

    To spoil, to ruin.

    'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'

    "Shy Smile didn't pay off." "I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?"

Forms

plural
bitches
past tense
bitched
past participle
bitched
present participle
bitching
third person singular
bitches
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).