bitch

noun bitches · betch · biatch · biotch · beatch · beotch

1. countable, uncountable A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother. My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!
2. archaic, countable, offensive, uncountable A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
3. countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman. Near-synonyms: cunt (vulgar, offensive); see also Thesaurus:jerk
4. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar A woman in general. Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?
5. countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
6. countable, derogatory, offensive, uncountable, vulgar An obviously gay man.
7. countable, offensive, uncountable, vulgar A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship. Dude, don't be a bitch. Assert yourself.
8. colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
9. colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable, vulgar Something unforgiving and unpleasant. […] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I thought, what Sammy and I thought, was – why not?
10. colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar A difficult or confounding problem. That level was a real bitch, don’t you think?
11. countable, humorous, slang, uncountable, vulgar Friend. What’s up, bitch?
12. countable, uncountable, vulgar Place; situation I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.
13. countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable, vulgar A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
14. countable, derogatory, humorous, slang, uncountable, vulgar a sexual partner
15. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar A queen playing card or chess piece.
16. countable, informal, obsolete, uncountable A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
17. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable Tea (the drink). […] seldom gets "a little the worse for liquor," gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of bitch at night, and goes quietly to bed, and thus he passes his time in a way a Varmint man would despise.

Similar: jerk, bastard, punk, gunsel

verb bitches · bitching · bitched

1. intransitive, vulgar To behave or act as a bitch; especially, to complain excessively.
2. intransitive, vulgar To complain or criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected. All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!
3. transitive, vulgar To spoil, to ruin. 'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'