bull-bitch

English

Noun

bull-bitch (plural bull-bitches)

1. A female bulldog.
2. (US, slang) A tough, uncompromising person; a hardass.
   • 1954, John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, published 1960, page xxvi. 133:

     "They used to say, if you got something you can't figure out, give it to Mack. Fauna, it's your dice. You're a bull-bitch idear [sic] dame."