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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bitchy
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
▪ I never heard her say a bitchy word about Diana.
▪ It was a bitchy profession, and Blythe was more bitchy than most.
▪ That night I tried not being decent, being sharp and bitchy, instead.
▪ The close, sweet, bitchy - as far as Alice was concerned - cloying, claustrophobic world of women.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bitchy

bitchy \bitchy\ adj. marked by or arising from malice. [slang]

Syn: catty, cattish.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bitchy

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 old dogs "bitchy" in face. That is because the Englishmen have gone in for the wrong sort of forefaces in their dogs, beginning with the days when Meersbrook Bristles and his type swept the judges off their feet and whiskers and an exaggerated face were called for in other varieties of terriers besides the wire haired fox.

[James Watson, "The Dog Book," New York, 1906]

\nRelated: Bitchily; bitchiness.
Wiktionary
bitchy

a. 1 (context derogatory vulgar English) spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant 2 (context derogatory vulgar English) irritable

WordNet
bitchy
  1. adj. marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark" [syn: catty, cattish]

  2. [also: bitchiest, bitchier]

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.