bitch

Meaning

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. (slang) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
7. A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
8. (informal,obsolete) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
9. (colloquial) Friend.
10. (colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
11. (colloquial) A difficult or confounding problem.
12. (colloquial) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
13. Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
14. (informal,slang) Place; situation
15. (obsolete) Tea (the drink).
16. (slang) A queen.

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɪt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.