Definitions
Female dog; also a harsh insult or complaint in informal use.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!”
“He had three pet bitches with him.”
“All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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