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bitching




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bitching
     1. adj. (slang) Excellent; outstanding.
     2. adj. (slang) Awful, terrible.
           Just my bitching luck.
     3. n. (vulgar, colloquial) A spiteful criticism or complaint.
bitch
     1. n. (dated, or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
           My bitch just had puppies; they're so cute!
     2. n. (archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.Geoffrey Hughes, Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World
     3. n. (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, typically a woman or man considered effeminate in some way.
           Ann gossiped about me and mocked my work; sometimes she can be a real bitch!
     4. n. (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person, often female, who does what others want; a slave.
           Dude, don't be such a bitch. Assert yourself.
           You're so weak-willed with your girlfriend. You must be the real bitch in the relationship.
     5. n. (obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
     6. n. (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
           What’s up, my bitch?
           How my bitches been doin'?
     7. n. (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
     8. n. (colloquial, vulgar, , usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
           Level 5 was a real bitch, don’t you think?
           That's a bitch of a question.
     9. n. (colloquial) A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
     10. n. (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
           Karma's a bitch.
     11. n. (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
           I'm 'bout to get up outta this bitch.
     12. v. (vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
     13. v. (vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
           All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!
     14. v. (vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.



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