46: bitch Jan 24, 2015
Apologies for not having any Word Facts post yesterday. For that
reason there will be two posts today, one at 10:30 (this post) and one
at 5:30 p.m.
The word is 'bitch'. It comes from the Old English 'bicce' meaning, as it still does today, "female dog". How it became understood to mean "to express displeasure" [verb] and "a thing or situation that is unpleasant or difficult to deal with" [noun] is disputed, but the general consensus is that it originated from the phrase "that bitch could bite".
The word is 'bitch'. It comes from the Old English 'bicce' meaning, as it still does today, "female dog". How it became understood to mean "to express displeasure" [verb] and "a thing or situation that is unpleasant or difficult to deal with" [noun] is disputed, but the general consensus is that it originated from the phrase "that bitch could bite".