bitch

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   The breeder's prize bitch had a fine litter.

Common collocations

• brood bitch Noun + noun

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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