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Meanings
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noun
a female dog; (vulgar) a spiteful person or to complain
The breeder's prize bitch had a fine litter.
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Etymology
From Old English bicce ('female dog'), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ; the verb sense 'to complain' is a 20th-century colloquial development.
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