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bitch n
1 A female seal; also attrib bitch
harp, ~ hood. Cp DOG1.
1871 Zoologist vi,
2541 [In spring the dogs] would have regained their lost fat, and the 'bitches' would be
enlarged by pregnancy. 1897-8 Leisure Hour xlvii, 285
The
bitches keep their blowholes open through the ice; up these they climb, and give birth on
the surface of the floe. [1911] 1930 COAKER 41 We recommend that ... the killing of bitch
hoods be prohibited. 1924 ENGLAND 97 I have seen attacked bitch harps nose their
whitecoats into the water [away from the hunters]. T 43/4-64 The dog hood and bitch hood,
they're the biggest and the boldest, the dangerousest.
2 A
cake made of flour, fat pork and molasses; also comb bitch and dogbody.
1924 ENGLAND 152 'Ye mind, sir,' asked Roberts, 'we used to have a
kind o' cakes made o' fat pork, flour, an' molasses, called "bitch and dogbody"? An' de
broken hard-bread was called "slut"?' T 156/7-65 They went aft to get some flour to bake
what they calls a bitch—that's what we call a bangbelly.
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