Bitch

Definition: Bitch

Bitch

Noun

1. (slang) an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch".

2. A woman who is thoroughly disliked; "she said her son thought Hilary was a bitch".

3. Informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here".

4. Female of any member of the dog family.

Verb

1. Say mean things.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bitch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Bitch \Bitch\, noun. [from Old English expression biche, bicche, Anglo-Saxon bicce; compare to Icelandic bikkja, German betze, peize.]. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bitch

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Unskillfulness

Verb: be unskillful; Adjective: not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark.

Woman

Hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.

Crosswords: Bitch

Out here the bitch got eyes (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Life's a bitch; now so am I. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity toity yankee bitch and I'd like nothing more than to piss you off (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

There is no us, you psychotic bitch! (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

I bet you did, you dirty bitch. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

I'm a bitch, I'm a tease (Bitch; performing artist: Meredith Brooks)

And every thug needs a down ass bitch,huh, feel me (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule)

And thats about the time that bitch hung up on me (What's My Age Again?; performing artist: Blink-182)

Life is a bitch and then you die (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio)

It's the ghetto west bitch and I'm So So Def (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

Bitch (1965)

Inside New Zealand: Prize Bitch (2001)

Rock Bitch (1999)

The Bitch Is Back (1995)

Booty Bitch (1995)

Bitch (performing artist: Meredith Brooks)

Ain't Love a Bitch (performing artist: Rod Stewart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bitch Factor (reference)

• Getting in Touch With Your Inner Bitch (reference)

• Switch Bitch (reference)

• The Bitch (reference)

• The Inner Bitch Guide to Men, Relationships, Dating Etc: Guide to Men, Relationships, Dating, Etc. / by Elizabeth Hilts (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bitch (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Smack My Bitch Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ain't That a Bitch (reference)

• Da Baddest Bitch [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Getting in Touch With My Inner Bitch [LIVE] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bitch": bitch fox ♦ bitch out ♦ bitch up ♦ bitch wolf ♦ brood bitch ♦ cow bitch. Additional references.

Beginning with "bitch": bitch-boy, bitch-faced, bitch-goddesses.

Ending with "bitch": son-of-a-bitch.

Albanian

bushtër, qahem (beef, cavil, complain, crab, grouse, repine, yammer), prosti (hooker, whore), kurvë (harlot, hooker, whore), katranos (foozle, foul up, piddle), harpi (harpy, hooker, whore). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مومس (baggage, bawd, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, prostitute, punk, scrubber, slattern, strumpet, tart, trollop, whore), ‏عض (bite, champ, nibble, nip, pain, snap), ‏عاهرة (harlot, hen, hooker, moll, prostitute, scrubber, strumpet, whore), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏الكلبة أنثى الكلب, ‏الكلبة, ‏شرموطة (prostitute, whore). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развалям (alloy, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), кучка (drag, jade), оплаквам се (complain, crab, growl, grumble, lament, moan, quarrel, report, squeal, tick). (various references)

Chinese 

母狗. (various references)

Czech

xantipa (nag, nagger, Xanthippe), vlèice (she-wolf), remcat (gripe), otrava (bore, bother, business, chore, drag, nark, pain, pest, poison, spoilsport, tedium), mrcha, liška (Fox, vixen), fena (female dog), èubka. (various references)

Danish

hunhund. (various references)

Dutch

vrouwtjeshond, teef. (various references)

Faeroese

tík. (various references)

Farsi 

قرزدن , سگ ماده , زن هرزه (Broad, Jade, Tart, Trollop), شکایت کردن (Complain). (various references)

Finnish

narttu. (various references)

French

chienne. (various references)

German

miststück (bastard, meanie), meckern (beef, bleat, gripe, grouse, moan, nag, nagging, niggling, to bitch, to grouse), hündin (she dog). (various references)

Greek 

σκύλα (scylla). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקטר (gripe), ל�"תמרמר (complain, grouse, grumble, resent), שרמוט�", פרוצ�" (floozy, harlot, prostitute, whore), כלבתא (shrew), כלב�". (various references)

Hungarian

szuka (gyp). (various references)

Indonesian

perempuan jalang, anjing betina. (various references)

Italian

volpe (Fox), puttana,mignotta,baldracca, puttana (slag, tart, whore), lupa, cagna. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雌犬 (female dog), 牝犬 (female dog), すすり泣く (all, all of a sudden, briskly, broke, clear, completely, directly, do something completely, erect, even, face with no make-up, gently, men's underwear, neat, nimble, ought to do, penniless, quick, quickly, quietly, shapely, should do, sleeping soundly, smart, smooth to the touch, smoothly, softly, straight, thoroughly, to leaveundone, to make refreshed, to make relieved, to neglect, to sob, to standup, upright, utterly stark naked, wearing only one's birthday suit), 尼 (nun), 売女 , いかなる� �合でも (anumber of, bad, come, complication, crucial moment, difficulties, forbidden, in any case, innocent, lovable, many, must not do, no entry, not good, now, paltry, pathetic, piddling, pitiful, quarrel, reserved, servile, stubborn Kochi man, sweet, tangle, that's too bad, timid, to come, to grow timid, to orgasm, trouble, unable to be honest, well, whatever the case may be, wrong). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すべた , ばいた, いけいけ , めすいぬ (female dog), あま (amah, fisherman, flax, hemp, linen, maid, nun, woman shell diver), めいぬ (female dog). (various references)

Korean 

�"컷 (DOE, Female). (various references)

Manx

bitchey (bitch canine), moddey-bwoirryn (bitch canine), gast (bitch canine), gass (bitch canine, bunch, sprig, stalk, stem), coo-bwoirryn. (various references)

Norwegian

tispe. (various references)

Papiamen

tefi (sieve). (various references)

Pig Latin

itchbay.(various references)

Portuguese

prostituta (call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, draggle-tail, harlot, harridan, hooker, moll, mort, prostitute, punk, streetwalker, strumpet, traipse, trull, unfortunate, walker, wench, whore), fêmea de animais, cadela, puta, cadela (dog). (various references)

Romanian

haitã (gang, pack, the hounds), femelã (cow, dam, female, mate, she), femeie stricatã (drab, light woman, wanton woman), curvã (hooker, whore), cãţea (Barker, lady dog). (various references)

Russian 

сука. (various references)

Scottish

saidh (an upright beam, upright beam; the part of a blade), galla (a bitch, female dog). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kučka. (various references)

Spanish

perra (penny). (various references)

Swedish

tik, slinka (dangle, floosie, floozie, floozy, slide, slink, slip, wench), hynda. (various references)

Thai

บ่นว่าอย่างต่อเนื่อง, สุนัขตัวเมีย. (various references)

Turkish

berbat etmek (ball up, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate), sevimsiz şey, rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, stultify, wreck), orospu (chippy, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, Moll, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, trull, whore), fahişe (bum, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, night walker, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, slag, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore), dişi köpek (lady dog, she-dog), díxí köpek, cadaloz (battle axe, grimalkin, hag, harridan, old cat, scold, shrew, shrewish, spiteful, termagant, virago, vixen), cadı kadın (scold, shrew, termagant), cadı (ghoul, gorgon, hag, hellcat, old cat, shrewish, witch), şikâyet etmek (belly, bemoan, complain, delate, inform against, squawk, take action). (various references)

Turkmen 

ganjyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

сука, гарчати (growl, whir, whirr). (various references)

Vietnamese 

con chó sói cái. (various references)

Welsh

gast. (various references)

nig. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bitch": bitched, bitcheries, bitchery, bitches, bitchier, bitchiest, bitchily, bitchiness, bitchinesses, bitching, bitchy. (additional references)

Words ending with "bitch": outbitch, superbitch. (additional references)

Words containing "bitch": outbitched, outbitches, outbitching, superbitches. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chit, itch.

-2 letters: bit, chi, hic, hit, ich, tic.

-3 letters: bi, hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: bitchy.

+2 letters: benthic, bewitch, biotech, bitched, bitches, cohabit, hebetic.

+3 letters: batching, bathetic, bioethic, biotechs, birrotch, bitchery, bitchier, bitchily, bitching, botchier, botchily, botching, britches, cohabits, outbitch, tribrach.

+4 letters: aitchbone, backlight, beachiest, beechiest, benthonic, bewitched, bewitches, bioethics, bismuthic, bitchiest, blotchier, blotchily, blotching, botchiest, brachiate, bunchiest, chubbiest, cohabited, hubristic, nightclub, tribrachs.

+5 letters: aitchbones, alphabetic, backlights, backstitch, batrachian, beclothing, bewitchery, bewitching, bichromate, biochemist, bioethical, birthplace, bitcheries, bitchiness, blacksmith, blotchiest, botcheries, brachiated, brachiates, brachiator, branchiest, bronchitic, bronchitis, bryophytic, butcheries, butchering, charitable, charitably, childbirth, cohabitant, cohabiting, cohobating, eurybathic, nightclubs, outbitched, outbitches, superbitch, switchable, switchback, thrombotic, tribrachic.