bitchery

English

Etymology

bitch +‎ -ery

Noun

bitchery (countable and uncountable, plural bitcheries)

  1. Behavior typical of a bitch.
    • 1988 February 5, Albert Williams, “Slowdance in Room 8-C/Again, Sometime Soon”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Again, Sometime Soon, the evening's opener, has a barbed comic style that recalls the bitcheries of The Boys in the Band […] .
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      He had been a noise, a recurrent clatter of bitchery and ambition, a kind of monster of the Union and the MCR, throughout Nick's years in college.
    • 2010 October 21, Troy Patterson, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, in Slate:
      […] nonprofessional actresses of a certain age enact playlets on the themes of conspicuous consumption, marital tension, and motiveless bitchery.
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