This word has been applied insultingly to women since at least the fourteenth century. It presumably caused as much offence then as it does now, but it appears to be commonly used, judging by the frequency with which it occurs in novels. Perhaps the...

Bitch is a term for the female of a canine species in general. It is also frequently used as an offensive term for a woman, taken to mean that she is malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or...

The gig Bitch Genre Rock/spoken word When 10 p.m. Friday, April 11 Where Stonefly Brewing Co., 735 E. Center St. How much $7 Info www.bitchmusic.com Bitch is a household word, but its meanings have little to do with...

IT MUST have been the loudest confidential whisper ever heard on television. Poor Kathleen Gingrich never meant the American nation to hear her say what her son Newtthought of Hillary Clinton ("She's a bitch"). A gunshot of a word, not easy to say inaudibly,...

Don't worry about calling Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin a pair of skinny bitches. Just don't try to get them back on the double-bacon-and-cheeseburger diets of their youth."We've been called a lot worse," giggles Freedman, who with her best friend Barnouin is co-author of "Skinny...

REVENGE IS A BITCH TO SWALLOW'CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN Lyons, B.,  Christian, C., Pray, T., England, C. J., Sullivan, P., Norris, G. L., Phelan, S., Leathers, M., Cooper, A., Clovin, B., Durham, S.  2007.  Forbidden Love: Wicked Women: Issue 2.  Cedar Falls:  Under the Moon Press. By Jacqueline...

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