bitchly
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
bitchly (comparative more bitchly or bitchlier, superlative most bitchly or bitchliest)
- Of, like, or befitting a bitch (all senses); bitchlike
- 1940, Philip Atlee, The Inheritors, page 164:
- "What a dirty black-hearted bitchly bastard you are," he said bitterly, and sat down in one of the cane-bottomed chairs.
- 2008, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 160:
- All my drag companions are strictly bitchly, they will only receive.
- 2009, Anthony J. Enciso, The Living and the Dead, volume 1, page 562:
- “Well, you did get a little bitchly for a minute, amigo. I was thinking about it.”
- 2009, William G. Tapply, Dark Tiger, page 174:
- “ […] Little devil, she'd just laugh at me. 'Hit me harder, Eddie,' she'd say. Bitchly child always refused to call me Daddy.”
- 2010, Wes Anthony, Binger and Stumpy the B.D. Dawg Series, page 310:
- As I grew I was fully aware that I was a bit bitchlier than any other from around my tribe.
Adverb edit
bitchly (comparative more bitchly, superlative most bitchly)
- In a manner befitting a bitch
- 1994, Robert Dingwall Zimmerman, Red Trance, page 34:
- I wanted to get up and lift her onto the recliner. I wanted to help her get comfortable, perhaps cover her legs with a light blanket. But she was determined, bitchly so, to do most everything herself.