Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) arguing, complaining, nagging; also as adj.

1929		E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 271: The scalding water, almost burning out the pimples on his lean back, Max Maxwell let out a bitchin’ oath.
1940		E. Hemingway letter c.1 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 505: They gave us the worst bitching anybody did in Spain.
1953		S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 50: These days Kreindl had operatic nerves and made bitching scenes [...] he threw dishes on the floor and stamped his feet.
1961		B. Crump Hang On a Minute, Mate (1963) 148: If you ever want to take on a woman you’ve got to decide whether it’s going to be worth it if she can’t take the knocks and starts bitching at you.
1962		(con. WWII) J.O. Killens And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 70: I want you fellows to open up [...] Let this be the bitching hour.
1964		R. Abrahams Deep Down In The Jungle 156: He talks about your mother in a bitching way.
1972		(con. 1960s) R. Price ‘Big Playground’ in Antaeus Aut. 40: Stop yer bitchin’.
1974		(con. 1960s) R. Price Wanderers 8: Stop your bitchin’.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 4: I could hear them early in the morning, their ferocious bitching driftin’ through the heater vent and into the bedroom.
1999		Guardian Editor 28 May 18: There will be plenty of wasping and bitching!
2000		Hip-Hop Connection Jan./Feb. 96: Slagging off an album or bitching about an artist is one thing, but this is completely different.