psychobitch

English

Etymology

From psycho +‎ bitch.

Pronunciation

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Noun

psychobitch (plural psychobitches)

1. (slang, vulgar, offensive) A female who is angry, dangerous, or mentally unstable.
   • 1993, The Media and Women Without Apology, page 15:

     But on-screen portrayals of real women are getting rarer, while the psychobitch is all the rage.

   • 2009, Heather McElhatton, Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Single, Harper, →ISBN, page 86:

     She hangs up on me. I can't believe her. One minute she's nice to me and the next she's a psychobitch.

   • 2010, Kiera Van Gelder, The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 14:

     “Listen, borderline is Glenn Close in that movie Fatal Attraction. Think stalking, knives, psychobitch from hell. That is not you!”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:psychobitch.