英语词汇bitch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bitch. Captain Grose defines a bitch as “A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may be gathered from the regular Billingsgate or St. Giles [woman’s] answer [on being called a bitch]: ‘I may be a whore but can’t be a bitch.’ ” Bitch has meant “a lewd woman” and been applied op- probriously to a woman since about 1400. It has been applied to a man, “less opprobriously and somewhat whimsically,” for almost as long. Fielding, for example, calling the landlord “a vast comical bitch” in Tom Jones. The word bitch derives from the Old English bicchu, meaning “a female dog.”

词汇	bitch
词源	bitch. Captain Grose defines a bitch as “A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of whore, as may be gathered from the regular Billingsgate or St. Giles [woman’s] answer [on being called a bitch]: ‘I may be a whore but can’t be a bitch.’ ” Bitch has meant “a lewd woman” and been applied op- probriously to a woman since about 1400. It has been applied to a man, “less opprobriously and somewhat whimsically,” for almost as long. Fielding, for example, calling the landlord “a vast comical bitch” in Tom Jones. The word bitch derives from the Old English bicchu, meaning “a female dog.”
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