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archbitch

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English

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Etymology

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From arch- +‎ bitch, influenced by archwitch.

Noun

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archbitch (plural archbitches)

  1. (uncommon, slang) A very bitchy person. [from 20th c.]
    • 1991, Gila Berkowitz, The Brides, St. Martin's Press, page 327:
      Well of course the Archbitch Diana had set him up to it; Paul didn't have either the imagination or the balls to ask it all by himself.
    • 2000, Vera Cowie, chapter 12, in No Bed of Roses, Severn House Publishers, page 200:
      Her smile was pure Schadenfreude. “It was all one in the beautiful eye of the Archbitch, his mother. She’s the one who ruined Rory; encouraged him to think that women were there for his use and pleasure, the way men are for her. []
    • 2007 July, Susan Palwick, Shelter, Tor Books, page 175:
      "Who's Gwyn?"
      "The archbitch from my dorm. I've told you about her."