Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bitch
IPA transcription: [b'ɪtʃ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bitch
    Meaning: female of any member of the dog family
  • Synonyms: gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk
    Meaning: informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here"
  • Synonyms: cunt, bitch
    Meaning: a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; "she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch"
  • Synonyms: bitch
    Meaning: an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: backbite, bitch
    Meaning: say mean things
  • Synonyms: gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
    Meaning: complain; "What was he hollering about?"
Usage examples
  • Mr. Ludlow's first terrier was a bitch called Splinter II.
  • A gentleman, the other day, had a very nice fox-terrier bitch.
  • An extraordinary instance of a similar kind occurred with a terrier bitch, named Gipsy.
  • A hundred times this poor gentleman bit his lip, drew down his torvous brows, and stamped his foot, and cursed himself bitterly, or called his lady bitch.
  • I know of another similar instance, where a cat was house-mate with a rather valuable bitch; this bitch brought forth a litter of seven pups. The cat had five kittens at the same time.
  • A still more extraordinary circumstance is upon record, of the late Colonel Hardy, who, having been sent for express to Bath, was accompanied by a favourite spaniel bitch in his chaise, which he never quitted till his arrival there.
  • In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences it is stated, that a bitch which was forgotten in a country-house, where she had access to no other nourishment, lived forty days on the wool of an old mattress which she had torn to pieces and digested.
  • The bitch was clean gone, till, looking to see how she had broken her chain, he found her lying hid in the back of her kennel. But that trick did not save her, for Mr. Tebrick, after trying to pull her out by her chain and finding it useless--she would not come,--thrust the muzzle of his gun into the kennel, pressed it into her body and so shot her.