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bitchy, a.|ˈbɪtʃɪ|
[f. bitch n.1]
1. Belonging to or resembling a bitch.
1948J. Creasey in B. Vesey-Fitzgerald Bk. of Dog ii. 694 The full-grown dog is termed ‘bitchy’ in head. 1961C. H. D. Todd Pop. Whippet iv. 55 Avoid a bitchy ‘pretty pretty dog’ [for stud] no matter how brilliant his show record may be.
2. transf.
a. Sensual, sexually provocative.
b. Malicious, catty.
1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xii. 215 It was different in the past... The liveliness wasn't..so exclusively bitchy, to put it bluntly. 1933E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families iv. 65 Ronald said proudly that the bits not dull were bawdy... Lester pronounced them ‘bitchie’, having..acquired the term from an American art critic. 1941Time 13 Oct. 100/1 Two bitchy strip queens are murdered with their own G-strings. 1947J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus vii. 94 There wasn't anything mean or bitchy about her. 1958P. Mortimer Daddy's gone A-Hunting xxxiii. 186 There's no need to be bitchy.
Hence ˈbitchiness, the quality of being ‘bitchy’; sensuality; maliciousness.
1934Dylan Thomas Let. 9 May (1966) 120 Let me raise one nasty growl about your unparalleled bitchiness in pinching my letter. 1951E. Ambler Judgment on Deltchev xvii. 198 Do I detect a note of bitchiness and distrust? 1954Koestler Invis. Writing xv. 174 A great lady..who constantly fought a losing battle against her own innate bitchiness. 1957W. Camp Prospects of Love iii. i. 150 A girl..with none of Lucinda's exhausting ‘come-and-get-me’ bitchiness. |