bitch

Etymology
From, , from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). More at.

Pronunciation




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 weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
 * 6)  An obviously gay man.
 * 7)  A submissive person who does what others want;  a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
 * 8) * 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.
 * 1)  Friend.
 * 2)  A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
 * 3)  A difficult or confounding problem.
 * 4)  A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
 * 5)  Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
 * 6)  Place; situation
 * 7)  Tea the drink.
 * 8)  A queen.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  Friend.
 * 2)  A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
 * 3)  A difficult or confounding problem.
 * 4)  A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
 * 5)  Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
 * 6)  Place; situation
 * 7)  Tea the drink.
 * 8)  A queen.
 * 1)  A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
 * 2)  Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
 * 3)  Place; situation
 * 4)  Tea the drink.
 * 5)  A queen.
 * 1)  Place; situation
 * 2)  Tea the drink.
 * 3)  A queen.
 * 1)  A queen.
 * 1)  A queen.

Usage notes

 * While bitch's original canine sense permits it to be used in most media, it remains offensive enough that, in the US, it is often minced (as b,, or ) in formal contexts.

Alternative forms




Euphemisms:

Hyponyms
Female canine
 * , a female hound
 * , a female fox
 * , a female fox

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, , ,
 * Arabic:, كَلْبَة
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܟܠܒܬܐ
 * Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: כַּלְבְּתָא
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: cãtsauã, cãtsau
 * Asturian:
 * Bashkir: кәнтәй
 * Belarusian: су́ка
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵢⴷⵉⵜ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: gast
 * Czech:, vlčice
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , vossin
 * Esperanto:, lupino , vulpino
 * Ewe: avunɔ
 * Faroese: tík, bikkja
 * Finnish:, , naaraskettu , naarassusi
 * French:,  ,
 * Friulian: čhice
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ძუკნა
 * German:,  ,  ,  , Kojotin ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: כַּלְבָּה, שׁוּעָלָה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: anjing betina
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kashmiri :
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kalė, vilkė
 * Low German: Teev, Tääv, Tiff
 * Macedonian: кучка
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: انجيڠ بتينا, اسو بتينا , سريݢالا بتينا , روبه بتينا , موسڠ بتينا , کويوتي بتينا , جاکل بتينا
 * Rumi: anjing betina, asu betina , serigala betina , rubah betina , musang betina , koyote betina , jakal betina
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: kelba
 * Manx: coo-bwoirryn
 * Maori: uwha kurī
 * Marathi: कुत्री
 * Mi'kmaq: sgwesmuj
 * Middle English: bicche
 * Nanai: вэчэн
 * Navajo: łééchąątsaʼii
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: tispe
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قانجیق
 * Persian: ماده‌سگ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Punjabi: ਕੁੱਤੀ
 * Romani: ʒukli
 * Romanian:,  ,
 * Romansch: chogna, chagna
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: श्वाना
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: псица, сука, куја, кучка, хуса, хујса
 * Roman: psica,, , , husa, hujsa
 * Slovak:, , vlčica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: beja
 * Spanish:,  ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Taos: kwíanena
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎍𐎁𐎚
 * Ukrainian: су́ка, су́чка
 * Volapük:,  , jirenar
 * Welsh:, llwynoges


 * Czech:, , ,
 * Slovak: kurva


 * Albanian: kurvë
 * Arabic: وسخة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: су́ка, сце́рва
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 衰婆, 八婆, 臭閪
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, mrcha, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , kankerwijf, , ,
 * Esperanto: aĉulino, fiulino, harpio, megero
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ძუკნა,
 * German:, , Miststück
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: כלבה
 * Hungarian:, , , , , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:, putana
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:,  , ズベ公
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: ,
 * Lithuanian: kalė
 * Macedonian: кучка
 * Malay: betina
 * Maltese: qaħba
 * Middle English: bicche
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: chispa, solharda
 * Old French: putain
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:,  ,  ,  , ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bidse, nighean na galla
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кучка, курва
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:, kurva
 * Slovene: prasica,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Thai: อีดอก
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: су́ка, сте́рва, су́чка
 * Uyghur: جالاپ
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: teef
 * Yiddish: כּלבֿטע


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пичка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,


 * French:, ,
 * Latvian: suņanagla pakaļā, galvassāpes
 * Polish:, diabelstwo
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:

Verb

 * 1)  To behave or act as a bitch.
 * 2)  To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
 * 3)  To spoil, to ruin.
 * 1)  To spoil, to ruin.
 * 1)  To spoil, to ruin.

Synonyms

 * ,, snipe

Translations

 * Breton:, ,
 * Bulgarian: оплаквам се
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: plendaĉi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: querelar, lamentar
 * Macedonian: пла́че, се жа́ли
 * Maori: komekome
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: frfľať, sťažovať sa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish:

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)   somewhat general term of abuse for a woman; disagreeable, assertive, aggressive or malicious woman
 * 2)   person in a submissive or low-placed position
 * 1)   person in a submissive or low-placed position

Etymology
, from, , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  disagreeable, despicable woman