Definition of "bitch"

All members of one breed, both dog and bitch, champion and nonchampion, are judged in a series of competitions until only one animal remains.

1953, LIFE, volume 34, number 6, page 110

He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.

1638, Democritus Junior for Henry Cripps, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610

'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch!' he sneered.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]

HASSAN: "You cheap Factualist bitch! Go and never darken my rumpus room again!"

1962 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 83

Biggie, remember when I used to let you sleep on the couch, and beg the bitch to let you sleep in the house?

1996, “Hit 'Em Up”, in Tupac Shakur and the Outlawz (lyrics), Johnny "J" (music), Hit 'Em Up‎, performed by 2Pac, California: Death Row Records

Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.

2003, “If I Can't”, in Curtis Jackson (lyrics), Dr. Dre and Mike Elizondo (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records

Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch.

1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy, season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company

[…] he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible bitch of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called Raddled, full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not?

1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, page 27

[…] seldom gets "a little the worse for liquor," gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of bitch at night, and goes quietly to bed, and thus he passes his time in a way a Varmint man would despise.

1824, Gradus Ad Cantabrigiam: Or, New University Guide to the Academical Customs, and Colloquial Or Cant Terms Peculiar to the University of Cambridge, Observing Wherein It Differs from Oxford, page 131

I ain't bitching 'bout things that aren't in my graspJust trying to hold steady on the righteous path.

2008, Patterson Hood, The Righteous Path

'You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!'

1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 162

"Shy Smile didn't pay off." "I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?"

1956, Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever, published 1965, page 100