female dog

noun

Synonym of bitch.

“Our new teacher is a real female dog.”

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nounfemale dog (plural female dogs)

plural female dogs

  1. euphemisticSynonym of bitch.

    Our new teacher is a real female dog.

    5 more examples

    “She called her a female dog. Leastwise she hinted it.”

    1945, James Street, The Gauntlet, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., page 210

    I don’t like the way he spoke to my wife and called her a female dog.

    2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 227

    You just called her a female dog in heat.

    2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 64

    And he called her a female dog.

    2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 34

    Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat.

    2014, Paul Gardiner, A Light in a World of Darkness, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 5

    Synonyms: bitch

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female, dog.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of bitch.

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Origin

From the word’s original meaning.

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APA

female dog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/female%20dog

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “female dog,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/female%20dog.

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