bitchy

adj

1. (colloquial)Spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant.

   “What she said—and what she did—was really bitchy.”

   ““Israel is trying to get Iran to attack us just like your bitchy ex who tried goading some dude in a bar to fight you,” Tim Pool, the popular rightwing podcaster, wrote on X.”

2. (colloquial)Irritable.

   “He’s really bitchy in the morning.”

3. (archaic, informal, rare)Resembling or characteristic of a female dog.

   “Greyhounds (dogs 4, bitches 2): All moderate; the small bitchy-looking Speculation was placed 1st in dogs, and Kate, by Cauld Kail—Graceful, was 1st in bitches, the former taking cup for best in both classes; […]”

   “[…] Hatteraick is good in shape and well feathered, but bitchy in face; […]”

   “The latter, though his muzzle is too weak and expression too bitchy, scores over his opponent in head properties, but he wants more bone, of better formation, is wide in front, very short and thick in neck and coarse in shoulders.”

   “His head is bitchy and he is not a show dog. […] Sir Knight, V H C, is light in the quarters, bitchy in head, only fair in limb and not very strong in loin.”

   “Where is the dog? One man would say Hard Cash; another would answer that he is too light and bitchy.”

noun

1. (archaic, colloquial, diminutive, form-of, rare)Diminutive of bitch (“a female dog”).

   “He was ſtretched upon a ſopha—with boots on—a terrier lay on one ſide of him, and he occaſionally embraced a large hound, which licked his face and hands, while he thus addreſſed it.—“Oh! thou dear bitchy—thou beautiful bitchy—damme, if I don’t love thee better than my mother or my ſiſters.””

   “The Master dismounted, sending on his horse to the western end of the covert, and climbing the bank of the wood was swallowed up in jungle, from whose depths we could dimly hear him cheering the hounds in the well-remembered way: “Thatsy-atsy-atsy, my darlin’s! Find him for me Thruelass and Naygress, good bitchies!””