bitching adj.
1. (orig. Aus., also bitch, bitchly) an intense pej., euph. for bloody adj.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Bottom Dogs 148: Now, bitchin’ fool, pay fer me! | |
| Scarlet Pansy 256: Leave out all bitch arithmetic. | |
| Citizens 38: That bitchin crane don’t operate itself! | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Moleskin Midas 39: Well, that’s bitchin’ funny, because I don’t like anybody either. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Quality of Violence (1978) 93: You not going anywhere [...] till I get me satisfaction back on what you’ little bitching daughter say to me pickney, Doris. | |
| (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 129: Don’t drag ass around like the whole bitchin’ world’s got you by the balls. | |
| Stay Hungry 82: I’ve got this bitching pain in my stomach. | |
| (con. 1969) Grunts 78: That’s the way it’s been happening every time after a bitching hump. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 1: bitchin’ – [...] difficult: What a bitching exam. | |
| Misery (1988) 24: Give me a bag of that effing pigfeed and a bag of that bitchly cow-corn. |
2. (also bitchen) excellent, wonderful; also as adv. [on good = bad model or ? bitch n.1 (2)].
| Gidget (2001) 26: Bitchen surf coming up, Cass. | |
| Gidget Goes Hawaiian 22: All I want is to get into that bitchen Makaha surf. | |
| in Current Sl. (1967) I:4 3/1: Bitchin’, adj. Good, attractive, or laudable. | |
| ‘Notes on Campus Vocabulary’ in AS XL:3 193: It can serve both as an interjection (bitchin’, man! = ‘Great!’) and as an adjective. | |
| Current Sl. I:1 1/2: Bitching A very good time, also very good looking. | |
| (con. 1950s) ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 101: Bad, Mean, Wicked, Evil. Bitchin. | |
| in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 53: There was once a gang that was so bitchin’ bad that they woulda cut them dudes down to snotnose crybabies. | |
| Hot to Trot 16: She’s my cousin. Bitchin’, huh? | |
| Maledicta 1 (Summer) 11: Even bitch can become a compliment if said in the right way; a real bitchen woman is considered the finest type on the West Coast. | |
| Stand (1990) 524: I’m bitchin-groovy at interior decoration […] She claimed to have ‘made it’ with the Dokken bassist, and said it had been ‘the most bitchin-groovy experience of my life’. | |
| ‘Valley Girl’ 🎵 Encino is like so bitchen (Valley Girl) / There’s like the Galleria (Valley Girl) / And like all these like really great shoe stores. | |
| It (1987) 41: They was already takin down all the bitchin rides, you know, like the Devil Dish and the Parachute Drop. | |
| Street Talk 2 12: bitchin’ (to be) – terrific. | |
| Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 99: The A.T.I.’s got a bitchin’ QuickDraw 3D Rave accelerator. | |
| Guardian G2 25 Feb. 9: Red tights look bitchin’ with burgundy shoes. | |
 | ‘Valley Girls’ on Paranoiafanzine 🌐 I’m totally sorry to the max, I know that you, like, probably don’t even understand half of the totally bitchen things that I’ve told you in this, like, page, or whatever, but if you check again soon it’ll be up. | |
| Skins ser.1 ep.1 [TV script] Isn’t this just bitching. | |
| Atomic Lobster 70: I’m down with any faith that’s into bitchin’ pastry. | |
| Sellout (2016) 117: The bitchin’ and firme hot rods and lowriders that grace the covers of custom-car magazines. |