bitchery

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English bitch

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Old French -ier

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Old French -ie

Old French -eriebor.

Middle English -erie

English -ery

English bitchery

From bitch + -ery.

Noun

bitchery (countable and uncountable, plural bitcheries)

1. Behavior typical of a bitch.
   • 1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Slowdance in Room 8-C/Again, Sometime Soon”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Again, Sometime Soon, the evening's opener, has a barbed comic style that recalls the bitcheries of The Boys in the Band […] .

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     He had been a noise, a recurrent clatter of bitchery and ambition, a kind of monster of the Union and the MCR, throughout Nick's years in college.

   • 2010 October 21, Troy Patterson, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, in Slate:

     […] nonprofessional actresses of a certain age enact playlets on the themes of conspicuous consumption, marital tension, and motiveless bitchery.