Etymology

bitchery

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Today it means: Behavior typical of a bitch. Full definition →

English bitch ← Middle English bicche ← Old English biċċe
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bikjaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*bikjǭ
  4. Proto-West Germanic*bikkjā
  5. Old Englishbiċċe
  6. Middle Englishbicche
  7. Englishbitch
  8. English todaybitchery

From bitch + -ery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.