Word Type
Bitch can be a verb or a noun.
bitch used as a verb:
- To make derogatory comments (about a person).
"Look, I saw you bitching about me yesterday, I know how you feel: why can't you say it to my face?" - To criticize (something) 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!"
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
bitch used as a noun:
- A female dog or other canine. In particular one who has recently had puppies.
"My bitch just had puppies: they're so cute!" - A female who is malicious, spiteful, unbearable, intrusive, or obnoxious.
"Ann gossiped about me and mocked my work; sometimes she can be a real bitch!" - By extension, a man with any of these qualities, especially a gay man (suggesting his behavior is womanly) or a man who is dishonorable, cowardly, spineless, whiny, or otherwise behaves in a manner unbecoming a man.
- Friend.
"What’s up, my bitch?" - An angry retort directed to a close buddy.
"Will you stop this, my bitch??" - A person who is made to adopt a submissive role in a relationship.
"Do you have to ask your girl before you do everything? You must be the bitch in the relationship." - A complaint.
- A difficult or confounding problem.
"Question 5 was a real bitch, don’t you think?" - A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is bitch?
- Verb usage: Look, I saw you bitching about me yesterday, I know how you feel: why can't you say it to my face?
- Verb usage: All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!
- Noun usage: My bitch just had puppies: they're so cute!
- Noun usage: Ann gossiped about me and mocked my work; sometimes she can be a real bitch!
- Noun usage: What’s up, my bitch?
- Noun usage: How my bitches been doin'?
- Noun usage: Will you stop this, my bitch??
- Noun usage: Do you have to ask your girl before you do everything? You must be the bitch in the relationship.
- Noun usage: Question 5 was a real bitch, don’t you think?
- Noun usage: That's a bitch of a question. (Or, a bitch of a problem, etc.)
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bitch are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bitch, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
