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Bitched vs Hitched - What's the difference?

bitched | hitched |

As verbs the difference between bitched and hitched

is that bitched is past tense of bitch while hitched is past tense of hitch.

bitched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bitch)

    • bitch

    English

    Alternative forms

    These are all slang and non-standard forms, used only for the insult (not the female animal): * biatch/biotch * beatch/beotch * biyatch/biyotch * beeyatch/beeyotch * bizatch/biznatch

    Noun

    (es)
  • A female dog or other canine. In particular one who has recently had puppies.
    • My bitch just had puppies: they're so cute!
  • (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, often female.
    • Ann gossiped about me and mocked my work; sometimes she can be a real bitch !
  • * 1959 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch , page 70
    • HASSAN: "You cheap Factualist bitch ! Go and never darken my rumpus room again!"
  • * 1913 , D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , I. iv. 60:
    • 'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch !' he sneered.
  • (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person, often female, who does what others want; a slave.
    • Dude, don't be such a bitch . Assert yourself.
    Do you have to ask your man before you do everything? You must be the bitch in the relationship.
  • * 1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy , season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company
    • Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch .
  • (obsolete, informal, of a man)
  • (humorous, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
    • What’s up, my bitch ?
    How my bitches been doin'?
  • (colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
  • (colloquial, usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
    • Level 5 was a real bitch , don’t you think?
    That's a bitch of a question.
  • (colloquial) A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
  • (figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
    • Karma's a bitch .

    Synonyms

    * female (when the species is specified or implied) * cow, harpy, vixen, hellcat, hussy * bastard * * * (person in a relationship who is made to adopt a submissive role) doormat * (a complaint) gripe, grumble, kvetch, moan, whinge * (difficult or confounding problem) toughie, stinker, pain in the ass * (to talk about)

    Hyponyms

    ; female canine * vixen, a female fox * she-wolf

    Derived terms

    * bitchcakes * bitchface * bitch fight * bitching * bitch slap * bitch switch * bitchy * bull-bitch * flip a bitch * life's a bitch * payback is a bitch, payback's a bitch * son of a bitch, sonofabitch * snitch bitch

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    Verb

    (es)
  • To behave or act as a bitch.
  • To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
    • All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!
  • To spoil, to ruin.
  • * 1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 162:
  • *:‘You're a Franco-maniac…You're thought to be a French agent…That's what's bitching your career!’

    • Synonyms

    * (make derogatory comments) badmouth, slag off (UK), snipe * (complain spitefully) gripe, grumble, kvetch, moan, piss and moan, sniff at, whine, whinge * See also

    hitched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hitch)

    • See also

    * get hitched

    hitch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A sudden pull.
  • Any of various knots]] used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope Knots and Splices by Cyrus L Day, Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001. See [[w:List of hitch knots, List of hitch knots in Wikipedia .
  • A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
    • His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
  • (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
    • The banquet went off without a hitch . (Meaning the banquet went smoothly.)
  • A hidden or unfavorable condition or element; a catch.
    • The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch ?
  • A period of time. Most often refers to time spent in the military.
    • She served two hitches in Vietnam.
    U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH ; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED
  • :: Stephen J. Hedges & Mike Dorning, Chicago Tribune; Orlando Sentinel; Jun 3, 2004; pg. A.1;

    • Synonyms

    * catch

    Derived terms

    * unhitch * unhitched

    Verb

  • To pull with a jerk.
  • To attach, tie or fasten.
  • *, chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.}}
  • (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched .
  • (informal) contraction of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
  • To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
  • * South
    • atomswhich at length hitched together
  • To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
  • * Fuller
    • To ease themselves by hitching into another place.
  • (UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
    • (Halliwell)

    References