Meanings
plural female dogs
- 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 210I 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 227You 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 64And 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 34Then 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 5Synonyms: bitch
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of bitch.
Origin
From the word’s original meaning.
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