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▪ I. bitch, n.1|bɪtʃ|
Forms: 1 bicce, bicge, 3–4 bicche, 4 bycche, biche, 5 bych(e, (begch), 5–6 bytch(e, 9 Sc. bich, 6– bitch.
[OE. bicce, elsewhere in Teutonic only in ON. bikkja: it is altogether uncertain what is the relation of the two words, whether they are cognate, or if not, which is adopted from the other. If the ON. bikkja was the original, it may, as shown by Grimm, be ad. Lapp. pittja: but the converse is equally possible. Ger. betze, petze (only modern), if related at all, must be a germanized form of bitch. The history of the F. biche bitch, and biche fawn, and their relation, if any, to the Eng. word, are unknown. There is a Sc. form bick sometimes affected in the pronunciation of sense 1, to avoid association with sense 2.]
1. a. The female of the dog.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 120 Canicula, bicᵹe. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 362 Biccean meolc. c1300K. Alis. 5394 Comen tigres many hundre; Graye bicchen als it waren. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. III. 141 He fonde a bicche ȝeue þe childe souke. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xviii. i. (1495) 742 The bytche bringeth forth blynde whelpes. 1542Brinklow Complaynt xxiv. (1874) 63 As chast as a sawt bytch. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. v. 11 A blinde bitches Puppies, fifteene i'th litter. a1680Butler Rem. xvii. (1759) 12. 1842 Lever Handy Andy ii. 14 All the dogs are well, I hope, and my favourite bitch.
b. The female of the fox, wolf, and occasionally of other beasts; usually in combination with the name of the species. (Also as in sense 2.)
1555Eden Decades W. Ind. iii. ii. (Arb.) 144 The dogge tiger beynge thus kylled they..came to the denne where the bytche remayned with her twoo younge suckynge whelpes. 1569Spenser Sonn. vii. a1687Cotton Aeneid Burlesqued (1692) 70 I saw Mischievous bitchfox Helena. 1749Fielding Tom Jones x. vii, We have got the dog fox, I warrant the bitch is not far off. 1820Scott Monast. xxxvi, As if ye had been littered of bitch-wolves, not born of women. 1825Bro. Jonathan III. 265 The whelp of a bitch-catamount.
2. a. Applied opprobriously to a woman; strictly, a lewd or sensual woman. Not now in decent use; but formerly common in literature. In mod. use, esp. a malicious or treacherous woman; of things: something outstandingly difficult or unpleasant. (See also son of a bitch.)
a1400Chester Pl. (1843) 181 Whom calleste thou queine, skabde biche? 1575J. Still Gamm. Gurton ii. ii, Come out, thou hungry needy bitch. 1675Hobbes Odyssey xviii. 310 Ulysses looking sourly answered, You Bitch. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 9 An extravagant bitch of a wife. 1790Wolcott (P. Pindar) Adv. Fut. Laureat Wks. 1812 II. 337 Call her Prostitute, Bawd, dirty Bitch. 1814Byron Let. 15 Oct. (1830) I. 586 It is well that one of us is of such fame, since there is a sad deficit in the morale of that article upon my part,—all owing to my ‘bitch of a star’, as Captain Tranchemont says of his planet. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1834) 446 You are a..son of a bitch. 1904Kipling Traffics & Discov. 165 After eight years, my father, cheated by your bitch of a country, he found out who was the upper dog in South Africa. 1913D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers I. iv. 60 ‘Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!’ he sneered. 1931T. E. Lawrence Let. 10 June (1938) 722 ‘She’ says the incarnate sailor, stroking the gangway of the Iron Duke, ‘can be a perfect bitch in a cross-sea.’ 1931R. Aldington Colonel's Daughter i. 50 What a preposterous old bitch that woman is. 1944Wyndham Lewis Let. 20 Aug. (1963) 378 For it may be a bitch of a Peace. 1956S. Beckett Godot i. p. 37 That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
b. Applied to a man (less opprobrious, and somewhat whimsical, having the modern sense of ‘dog’). Not now in decent use.
a1500E.E. Misc. (1855) 54 He is a schrewed byche, In fayth, I trow, he be a wyche. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xvii. iii, Landlord is a vast comical bitch. 1893Stevenson Catriona xi. 123 Ay, Davie, ye're a queer character..a queer bitch after a', and I have no mind of meeting with the like of ye. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 203 Is your lazy bitch of a brother gone yet?
c. A primitive form of lamp used in Alaska and Canada.
1904E. Robins Magnetic North i. 233 ‘I'll light a piece of fat pine,’ shouted the Boy... ‘Where's your bitch?’ said Dillon... ‘Haven't you got a condensed milk can with some bacon grease in it, and a rag wick?’ 1927C. M. Russell Trails plowed Under 159 In the long winter nights their light was coal oil lamps or candles—sometimes they were forced to use a ‘bitch’, which was a tin cup filled with bacon grease and a twisted rag wick. 1961Canadian Geogr. Jrnl. Jan. 14/2 ‘Office’ work was done by candlelight and sometimes by nothing better than a ‘bitch’—a wick in a shallow tin of tallow.
3. Comb. and attrib., as (sense 1) bitch-puppy, bitch-whelp; (sense 2) bitch-baby, bitch-clout, bitch-daughter, bitch-hunter, bitch-son; † bitch-daughter (obs.), the nightmare; bitch-fou a. (Sc.), as drunk and sick as a bitch, ‘beastly’ drunk; bitch-goddess, in William James's phr. (see quot. 1906); cf. success n. 3.
a1400Cov. Myst. 218 Come fforthe, thou hore, and stynkynge *byche-clowte.
1483Cath. Angl. 31 Þe *Bych-doghter, epialta, noxa.
1786Burns Interv. Ld. Dare, I've been..*bitch-fou 'mang godly priests.
1906W. James Let. 11 Sept. (1920) II. 260 A symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the *bitch-goddess success. 1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley ix. 125 He realized now that the bitch-goddess of success had two main appetites: one for flattery, adulation, stroking and tickling such as writers and artists gave her; but the other a grimmer appetite for meat and bones. 1960Cambr. Mag. 21 May 554/2 The pursuit, in our time, in the University and outside, of the Bitch Goddess Success, of a ‘better living’ without quality.
1787Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 255 My Lord Clanbrassil purchased a *Bitch-puppy.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 8487 *Biche sone! thou drawest amis.
c1480Gloss. in Wright Voc. 251 Hec catula, a *byche qwelpe.
1601Holland Pliny I. 220 The *bitch-whelpe that commeth of the first litter.
▸ bitch tits n. slang (orig. Bodybuilding) = man breasts n. at man n.1 Compounds 2a.
1985K. Butler & L. Rayner Best Med. i. viii. 53 ‘*Bitch tits’, the growth of the nipples and surrounding tissue, which often requires surgery. 1998J. Uhls Fight Club (film script) 4 He developed bitch tits because his testosterone ration was too high and it caused his body to up the estrogen. 2005Hotdog Dec. 55/1 [She] at least writes about what she knows..ageing fat men who wouldn't know a rave if it bit them on the bitch-tits.
▪ II. bitch, n.2 Mining.
Also biche, beche, q.v.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. s.v. Boring, For drawing up the Rods, we have, to hold them, an Iron Instrument called a Bitch, and, for unscrewing them, two more we call Dogs. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Biche, a tool ending below in a conical cavity, for recovering broken rods from a bore⁓hole.
▪ III. bitch, v.1
[f. bitch n.1 sense 2.]
†1. intr. Obs.
a. To frequent the company of lewd women.
b. To call any one ‘bitch.’
1675C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 177 Jove, thou now art going a Bitching. 1687― Aeneid Burl. (1692) 43. 1709 Ramb. Fuddle-Caps 6 In wonderful Rage went to Cursing and Bitching.
2. trans. and intr. To behave bitchily towards (a person); to be spiteful, malicious, or unfair (to); to deceive (in sexual matters).
1934E. Waugh Handful of Dust ii. 58, I quite enjoy coping—in fact I'm bitching him rather. 1936D. Powell Turn, Magic Wheel ii. 125 She'd been bitched by everyone else..so that she wouldn't be surprised to have me leave her there in the rain. 1948G. Greene Heart of Matter ii. iii. i. 199 She said, ‘I thought you were never coming. I bitched you so.’ 1955P. Wildeblood Against Law iii. 105 They're absolute hell, all having affairs with the Officers and bitching everybody like mad. 1958B. Hamilton Too Much of Water xi. 248 She'd started bitching him from the beginning, with every man in sight. 1963Listener 7 Feb. 263/1 A very Mayfair cast of a new play bitched and intrigued at a rehearsal with much verisimilitude and some wit.
▪ IV. bitch v.2
[perh. f. bitch n.1 sense 1.]
1. trans. To hang back. rare.
1777Burke Letter in Corresp. (1844) II. 157 Norton [Speaker] bitched a little at last; but though he would recede, Fox stuck to his motion.
2. trans. To spoil, to bungle. Also const. up. Cf. botch v.1 Hence ˈbitched(-up) ppl. a., spoilt, bungled. colloq.
1823‘Jon Bee’ Slang 10 To bitch a business, to spoil it, by aukwardness, fear, or want of strength. 1856C. Reade Never too Late to Mend III. iii. 18 You will bitch my schemes and lose your fifty pounds. 1928Hecht & MacArthur Front Page iii. 150 You've just bitched up my whole life! 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions ii. vi. 400 She [sc. a bus-engine] was bitching 'erself up all along. 1931Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 197 'Reg'lar lower-deck palaver. Jemmy damned 'em all for bitchin' the evolution. 1932H. Nicolson Public Faces viii. 201 Yes, that charming M. Cocquebert has, for you will excuse the word, bitched the whole business. 1937E. St. V. Millay Conv. at Midnight ii. 58 Can't you let the poor benighted bitched-up country go to hell in peace? 1958J. Wain Contenders 188, I was in a hurry to..begin the hunt for Ned, before Robert had a chance to do anything to bitch it up. 1960R. Daniel Death by Drowning xv. 225 But for a squall bitching his escape route..he would be in France.
3. intr. To grumble, to complain. colloq. (orig. U.S.). Hence ˈbitching vbl. n.
1930Amer. Speech V. 238 He bitched about the course. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 96 What the hell have you got to bitch about when I'm putting the money in your pocket? 1953C. M. Kornbluth Syndic (1964) xiv. 145 If you let me set off the explosion, I'll quit my bitching. 1954J. Christopher 22nd Cent. 68 Tele did a damned fine job. It'll be a long time before I bitch at Saguki again. 1961B. Crump Hang on a Minute i. 12 Nothing to do but go home and listen to the bitching. Ibid. xiii. 147 Couples bitching at each other is human nature. |