US /bɪtʃ/ UK /bɪtʃ/
noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a female dog; (vulgar) a spiteful person or to complain

    The breeder's prize bitch had a fine litter.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a female dog; (vulgar) a... complaingrumblegripemoancarpwhine
Word family
Derived forms bitchybitchiness

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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