Bitch Meaning
/bɪt͡ʃ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
nounA promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
Sentence Examples
Whom God loves, his bitch brings forth pigs.
Idiot, I've forgotten that two-timing bitch.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer called his female dog a ____ after she gave birth to puppies.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The female dog, or ____, was protecting her young and small puppies.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog”) (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog, bitch”), Old Danish bikke (“bitch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). Related to bicker.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains."
— 1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110:
"He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore."
— 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:
"'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!' he sneered."
— 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
"HASSAN: "You cheap Factualist bitch! Go and never darken my rumpus room again!""
— 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 83:
"[…] thirty-seven shits, six assholes, two bitches and a bastard. All in all, it's quite possibly the sweariest comedy set in Los Angeles County […]"
— 2007, J M Tyree, Ben Walters, The Big Lebowski:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer called his female dog a ____ after she gave birth to puppies.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The female dog, or ____, was protecting her young and small puppies.