female dog
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From its original meaning.
Noun
[edit]female dog (plural female dogs)
- (euphemistic) The word bitch.
- Synonym: the b-word
- 1945, James Street, The Gauntlet, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., page 210:
- “She called her a female dog. Leastwise she hinted it.”
- 2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 227:
- I don’t like the way he spoke to my wife and called her a female dog.
- 2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
- And he called her a female dog.
- 2014, Paul Gardiner, A Light in a World of Darkness, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:
- Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat.
- 2014, Okisha Jackson, A Successful Failure: The Complete Series, →ISBN:
- My eyes rolled and called her a female dog.
- 2015, Terrie Farley Moran, Caught Read-Handed, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 247:
- Mr. Ertz called her a female dog, you know, the ‘B word.’
- 2015, L.S.C. Fernandes, Vampire Slayer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
- So she did what any girl would do: called her a female dog and raised her fist to punch her on the jaw line.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female, dog.