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German
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Etymology
Probably borrowed from English bitch, itself ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Betze f (genitive Betze, plural Betzen)
- (obsolete except dialectal) vixen, bitch
1920 [1910], Hermann Löns, Der Wehrwolf [The Warwolf]:»Damit sie nicht hecken, die Betzen,« sagte Grönhagen, als er eine große Frau mit schwarzen Haaren, die sich hinter dem grünen Johann bergen wollte, durch den Kopf schoß.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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