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bitchery

noun

Etymology

From bitch + -ery.

  1. derived from *bikjaną✻ — “to thrust, attack”
  2. inherited from *bikjǭ✻ — “female dog”
  3. inherited from *bikkjā✻
  4. inherited from biċċe
  5. inherited from biche
  6. suffixed as bitchery — “bitch + ery”

Definitions

  1. Behavior typical of a bitch.

    • Again, Sometime Soon, the evening's opener, has a barbed comic style that recalls the bitcheries of The Boys in the Band[…].
    • He had been a noise, a recurrent clatter of bitchery and ambition, a kind of monster of the Union and the MCR, throughout Nick's years in college.
    • […] nonprofessional actresses of a certain age enact playlets on the themes of conspicuous consumption, marital tension, and motiveless bitchery.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA