Bitched vs Witched - What's the difference?
bitched | witched |
(bitch)
A female dog or other canine. In particular one who has recently had puppies.
(vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, often female.
* 1959 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch , page 70
* 1913 , D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , I. iv. 60:
(vulgar, offensive) A submissive person, often female, who does what others want; a slave.
* 1999 September 23, Chris Sheridan, “This House Is Freakin’ Sweet”, “Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater”, Family Guy , season 2, episode 1, Fox Broadcasting Company
(obsolete, informal, of a man)
(humorous, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
(colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
(colloquial, usually only used in the singular) A difficult or confounding problem.
(colloquial) A queen (playing card), particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
(figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
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.
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!’
(witch)
A person who practices witchcraft; specifically:
#A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
#*(rfdate) Shakespeare:
#*:He cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch .
#(label) A Wiccan.
# A man who practices witchcraft.
#*:
#*:Some of the kynges had merueyl of Merlyns wordes and demed well that it shold be as he said / And som of hem lough hym to scorne / as kyng Lot / and mo other called hym a wytche / But thenne were they accorded with Merlyn that kynge Arthur shold come oute and speke with the kynges
#*(rfdate) Wyclif Bible (Acts viii. 9)
#*:There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch .
(label) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
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:(Shakespeare)
One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
(label) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera .
The stormy petrel.
Any of a number of flatfish:
# (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
# (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
#, found near New Zealand.
(obsolete) To practise witchcraft
To bewitch
To dowse for water
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
English terms with homophones
As verbs the difference between bitched and witched
is that bitched is past tense of bitch while witched is past tense of witch.bitched
English
Verb
(head)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/biznatchNoun
(es)- My bitch just had puppies: they're so cute!
- Ann gossiped about me and mocked my work; sometimes she can be a real bitch !
- HASSAN: "You cheap Factualist bitch ! Go and never darken my rumpus room again!"
- 'Look at the children, you nasty little bitch !' he sneered.
- 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.
- Now that you're stinking rich, we'd gladly be your bitch .
- What’s up, my bitch ?
- How my bitches been doin'?
- Level 5 was a real bitch , don’t you think?
- That's a bitch of a question.
- 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-wolfDerived 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 bitchReferences
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
Verb
(es)- All you ever do is bitch about the food I cook for you!
Synonyms
* (make derogatory comments) badmouth, slag off (UK), snipe * (complain spitefully) gripe, grumble, kvetch, moan, piss and moan, sniff at, whine, whinge * See alsowitched
English
Verb
(head)witch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wicche, from (etyl) .Noun
(es)Synonyms
* (female magic user) wizardess, sorceress * (male magic user) wizard, sorcerer, warlock * (an ugly or unpleasant woman) See ,Derived terms
(terms derived from witch) * bewitch * cold as a witch's tit * man-witch * nonwitch * witch ball * witchcraft * witch doctor * witches' brew * witches' knickers * witches' Sabbath * witchfinder * witch grass * witch hazel * witch-hunt * witching hour * witchyExternal links
* (projectlink) * (Arnoglossus scapha) * (Arnoglossus scapha)Verb
(es)- 'It approaches the witching hour'.
