Meanings
plural bitcheries
- 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 Reader2 more examples
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
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
- Proto-Germanic*bikjaną
- Proto-Germanic*bikjǭ
- Proto-West Germanic*bikkjā
- Old Englishbiċċe
- Middle Englishbicche
- Englishbitch
- Englishbitchery
Cite this entry
bitchery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitchery
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