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Uncharitable characterisation of a female setter?
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bitchy
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Word definitions for bitchy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bitchy \bitchy\ adj. marked by or arising from malice. [slang] Syn: catty, cattish.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She was always making bitchy comments about people's clothes and make-up. ▪ That's a bitchy thing to say. ▪ The other girls in my class were often bitchy towards me because I studied so hard. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1925, U.S. slang, "sexually provocative;" later (1930s) "spiteful, catty, bad-tempered" (usually of females); from bitch + -y (2). Earlier in reference to male dogs though to look less rough or coarse than usual.\n\nMr. Ramsay says we would now call the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark" [syn: catty , cattish ] [also: bitchiest , bitchier ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context derogatory vulgar English) spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant 2 (context derogatory vulgar English) irritable
Usage examples of bitchy.
Anna let the silence draw out slightly, knowing she was being petty, bitchy, or worse.
All my cleverly subtle, hilariously bitchy remarks stuff that -would normally have him laughing himself sick - were instead being met with swift kicks under the table.
It would be bitchy to suggest that Tash looked like an Escada-clad Tarzan as she sailed through the air on her vine, I mean, rope.
And after her bitchy leave-taking last night, even getting in line might not suffice.
But the life-cry of that love has long since hissed away into no more than this idle and bitchy faggotry.
And as much as I am amused by the concept of watching the Clueless Crew lie to each other all year, the reality of all the bitchy backstabbing that is bound to occur makes me less excited about being a junior than ever.
Not with the merry riotousness of Hockley-in-the-Hole on the eve of a Hanging-Day, but the snitty, bitchy sort practiced by men who were animated by the same base passions but who had too much to lose by giving them free rein.
Thailand, who sported a bitchy wit, referred to the pair of them as the Flying Pedophilia Brothers, a nickname to which they both objected.
It gleefully mixes political cliches, bitchy reproaches and insults, and moments of absurd overdramatization.
A hundred yards away from where that bitchy redhead from New York was confronting the killer, Mason and Nathan Groomer were on the crest of a bald hill.
He was rude, bitchy and defiant to Herbert, but he never forgot that he was comfortably ensconced in a luxury condominium in Concorde Tower, and it would take more than an argument, no matter how brutal or vicious, to winkle him out.
He'd thought she was kind of bitchy when she'd first transferred, but she was prov ing to be a bright and capable soldier, a welcome addition to the Alphas— Jill let out a high-pitched gasp of surprise and Barry spun, the scent of decay suddenly thick in the narrow hall.
Hard to believe that the former Miss Teen Lubbock could be so articulately bitchy.
If she got any edgier, and thus bitchier, he just might try to kill her again, and another brain aneurysm he did not need.
I'm amazed Rannaldini's married,' the drawl was becoming slower and bitchier, 'to such a boot.