bitchly

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adjective

Of, like, or befitting a bitch (all senses); bitchlike

Scrabble 17

Meanings

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adjectivebitchly (comparative more bitchly or bitchlier, superlative most bitchly or bitchliest)

comparative more bitchly · comparative bitchlier · superlative most bitchly · superlative bitchliest

  1. Of, like, or befitting a bitch (all senses); bitchlike

    All my drag companions are strictly bitchly, they will only receive.

    2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 160
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    "What a dirty black-hearted bitchly bastard you are," he said bitterly, and sat down in one of the cane-bottomed chairs.

    1940, Philip Atlee, The Inheritors, page 164

    “Well, you did get a little bitchly for a minute, amigo. I was thinking about it.”

    2009, Anthony J. Enciso, The Living and the Dead, volume 1, page 562

    “[…] Little devil, she'd just laugh at me. 'Hit me harder, Eddie,' she'd say. Bitchly child always refused to call me Daddy.”

    2009, William G. Tapply, Dark Tiger, page 174

    As I grew I was fully aware that I was a bit bitchlier than any other from around my tribe.

    2010, Wes Anthony, Binger and Stumpy the B.D. Dawg Series, page 310

bitchly2

adverbbitchly (comparative more bitchly, superlative most bitchly)

comparative more bitchly · superlative most bitchly

  1. In a manner befitting a bitch

    I wanted to get up and lift her onto the recliner. I wanted to help her get comfortable, perhaps cover her legs with a light blanket. But she was determined, bitchly so, to do most everything herself.

    1994, Robert Dingwall Zimmerman, Red Trance, page 34

Origin

bitchly · adjective

From bitch + -ly (adjectival suffix).

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bitchly · adverb

From bitch + -ly (adverbial suffix).

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APA

bitchly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitchly

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bitchly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitchly.

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