female dog

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English

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Etymology

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From its original meaning.

Noun

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female dog (plural female dogs)

  1. (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.
    • 2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 64:
      You just called her a female dog in heat.
    • 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, Amanda Laureano, Sirena, Xlibris, →ISBN:
      Perhaps she’d think I called her a female dog.
    • 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.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female,‎ dog.