Meanings
plural archbitches
- slanguncommonA very bitchy person.First known use 20th c.
"Who's Gwyn?" "The archbitch from my dorm. I've told you about her."
2007 July 29, Susan Palwick, Shelter, Tor Books, page 1752 more examples
Well of course the Archbitch Diana had set him up to it; Paul didn't have either the imagination or the balls to ask it all by himself.
1991, Gila Berkowitz, The Brides, St. Martin's Press, page 327Her smile was pure Schadenfreude. “It was all one in the beautiful eye of the Archbitch, his mother. She’s the one who ruined Rory; encouraged him to think that women were there for his use and pleasure, the way men are for her. […]”
2000, Vera Cowie, chapter 12, in No Bed of Roses, Severn House Publishers, page 200
Origin
From arch- + bitch, influenced by archwitch.
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