bitchery

B3I1T1C3H4E1R1Y4

noun

Behavior typical of a bitch.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounbitchery (countable and uncountable, plural bitcheries)

plural bitcheries

  1. countableuncountableBehavior 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[…].

    1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Slowdance in Room 8-C/Again, Sometime Soon”, in Chicago Reader
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    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.

    2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

    […] nonprofessional actresses of a certain age enact playlets on the themes of conspicuous consumption, marital tension, and motiveless bitchery.

    2010 October 21, Troy Patterson, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, in Slate

Origin

  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. Englishbitchery

From bitch + -ery.

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APA

bitchery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitchery

MLA

“bitchery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitchery. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bitchery,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitchery.

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