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female dog en · NOUN

Etymology

From the word’s original meaning.

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic) Synonym of bitch.
    • Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat. 2014, Paul Gardiner, A Light in a World of Darkness, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
    • And he called her a female dog. 2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
    • I don’t like the way he spoke to my wife and called her a female dog. 2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 227:
    • “She called her a female dog. Leastwise she hinted it.” 1945, James Street, The Gauntlet, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., page 210:
    • Perhaps she’d think I called her a female dog. 2015, Amanda Laureano, Sirena, Xlibris, →ISBN:
    • So she did what any girl would do: called her a female dog and raised her fist to punch her on the jaw line. 2015, L.S.C. Fernandes, Vampire Slayer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
    • Our new teacher is a real female dog.
    • Mr. Ertz called her a female dog, you know, the ‘B word.’ 2015, Terrie Farley Moran, Caught Read-Handed, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 247:
    • My eyes rolled and called her a female dog. 2014, Okisha Jackson, A Successful Failure: The Complete Series, →ISBN:
    • You just called her a female dog in heat. 2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 64:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female, dog.

Forms

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female dogs Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

b-word

Synonyms

bitch