bitch🔊

(dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, ''particularly'' a recent mother.

(offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.Geoffrey Hughes, ''Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World'', Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2006:The early applications were to a promiscuous or sensual woman, a metaphorical extension of the behavior of a bitch in heat. Herein lies the original point of the powerful insult ''son of a bitch'', found as ''biche sone'' ca. 1330 in ''Arthur and Merlin'' ... while in a spirited exchange in the ''Chester Play'' (ca. 1400) a character demands: “Whom callest thou queine, skabde bitch?” (“Who are you calling a whore, you miserable bitch?”).

(despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman) (sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.

(female) (slang) A woman.

(offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way

(derogatory) An obviously gay man.

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

(misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations

(humorous) a sexual partner

(of a man) {{non-gloss|A playful variation on dog (sense "man").}}

(used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.

(colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.

(vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.

(card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.

(figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.

(slang) Place; situation

(slang) Tea {{gloss|the drink}}.

(offensive) A queen.

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

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

To spoil, to ruin.