female dog

English

Etymology

From its original meaning.

Noun

female dog (plural female dogs)

1. (euphemistic) The word bitch.

   Synonym: the b-word

   • 1945, James Street, The Gauntlet, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., page 210:

     “She called her a female dog. Leastwise she hinted it.”

   • 2000, Mark McCrum, Castaway: The Full, Inside Story of the Major TV Series, Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 227:

     I don’t like the way he spoke to my wife and called her a female dog.

   • 2010, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 64:

     You just called her a female dog in heat.

   • 2012, Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Andrew Bromfield, A Displaced Person: The Later Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     And he called her a female dog.

   • 2014, Paul Gardiner, A Light in a World of Darkness, Archway Publishing, →ISBN, page 5:

     Then the blond guy called her a female dog and sat down in his seat.

   • 2014, Okisha Jackson, A Successful Failure: The Complete Series, →ISBN:

     My eyes rolled and called her a female dog.

   • 2015, Terrie Farley Moran, Caught Read-Handed, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 247:

     Mr. Ertz called her a female dog, you know, the ‘B word.’

   • 2015, Amanda Laureano, Sirena, Xlibris, →ISBN:

     Perhaps she’d think I called her a female dog.

   • 2015, L.S.C. Fernandes, Vampire Slayer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

     So she did what any girl would do: called her a female dog and raised her fist to punch her on the jaw line.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see female,‎ dog.