bitch

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bitch/bɪtʃ/

▶noun

• 1 a female dog, wolf, fox, or otter.

• 2 informal a disliked or spiteful woman.

  ■ black English a woman (used in a non-derogatory sense).

• 3 (a bitch) informal a difficult or unpleasant thing or situation.

▶verb informal make spitefully critical comments.

– origin OE bicce, of Gmc origin.