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Definition: Bitchy |
BitchyAdjective1. Marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BitchySynonyms: cattish (adj), catty (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He didn't drown, if that makes life any less bitchy. (The Tuxedo; writing credit: Dave Foley) Were you this bitchy when we went out? (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont) No, not bitchy crazy, more like homicidal maniac crazy. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Are you always such a bitchy little thing? (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) You sound just like that bitchy teller. (Good Morning, Miami; writing credit: James Grissom; David Kohan) | |
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| "Bitchy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "Bitchy" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.88% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bitchy": she's really bitchy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bitchy quote | 48 | bitchy girl | 3 |
bitchy | 21 | bitchy cute saying | 3 |
bitchy boss | 9 | bitchy boss.com | 3 |
bitchy woman | 9 | bitchy saying | 3 |
bitchy wife | 8 | betty bitchy | 3 |
bitchy msn name | 6 | bitchy poem | 3 |
bitchy ms | 6 | bitchy bear | 3 |
bitchy lesbian | 4 | bitchy girl quote | 2 |
bitch bitchy | 4 | bitchy witchy | 2 |
bitchy lady old | 4 | away bitchy message | 2 |
bitchy quotez | 4 | bitchy tease | 2 |
bitchy sister | 4 | bitchy icon | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bitchy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gërnjar (carping, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fussy, grouch, grouchy, grouse, grouser, grumbler, nag, nagger, nagging, peevish, pettish, petulant, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant, wrangler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشاكس (aggressive, cantankerous, contentious, currish, dissentious, fresh, obstreperous, ornery, petulant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rowdy, sorehead, termagant, truculent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | злобен (blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious, virulent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zlomyslný (catty, despiteful, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, spiteful, unfriendly, unkind, vicious), svárlivý (argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, quarrelsome, termagant), protivný (aggravating, beastly, disagreeable, hateful, horrid, irksome, lousy, molestful, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, odious), kousavý (acerbic, acrid, barbed, biting, caustic, cutting, dry, pointed, scathing, snappy, tart, vitriolic, waspish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | feeksachtig (shrewish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | megera (shrewish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vache, rosse, méchant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bissig (acrimonious, currish, edgy, fierce, prickly, ratty, scathing, snappily, snappish, snappy, sour, vicious, waspish), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, beastly, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked), gehässig (catty, invidious, mean, nastily, nasty, spiteful, spitefully, venomous, vicious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόστυχοσ (caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sordid, vile, vulgar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ בל פיו (foulmouthed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rosszindulatú (bad light, censorious, despiteful, envious, evil-minded, hostile, ill disposed, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mischievous, rancorous, snide, spiteful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | お婆" (bitchy old hag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おば" (bitchy old hag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itchybay злобный (blackhearted, catty, despiteful, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, ill-natured, malicious, malign, nasty, ornery, rancorous, spiteful, spleenful, spleenish, venomous, viperous, virulent). (various references) kurvinski (scarlet). (various references) rencoroso (malicious, malign, nasty, rancorous, unforgiving, vicious), malévolo (ill natured, malevolent, malicious, malign, nasty, spiteful). (various references) självsvåldig (undisciplined). (various references) ซึ่งพู"ให้ร้ายคนอื่น. (various references) orospu yaratılışlı, cadoloz, şirret (gorgon, hussy, huzzy, shrew, shrewish, termagant, virago). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bitchy" (pronounced bi"khē) |
| 3 | -i" kh ē | itchy, witchy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-h-i-t-y" | |
-1 letter: bitch, itchy. | |
-2 letters: chit, city, itch. | |
-3 letters: bit, chi, hic, hit, ich, icy, thy, tic. | |
-4 letters: bi, by, hi, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-h-i-t-y" | |
+2 letters: bitchery, bitchily, botchily. | |
+3 letters: blotchily. | |
+4 letters: bewitchery, bryophytic, charitably, eurybathic. | |
+5 letters: bathymetric, biorhythmic, dithyrambic, inhabitancy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 74 63 68 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. - -.-. .... -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i t c h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0074 0063 0068 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367586697491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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