To stand bitch.—To make tea, or do the honours of the tea table, or to
perform a female part. Bitch is here used generically for a woman.
Bitch Booby, subs. (old military).—A country girl.—Grose.
Bitchery, subs. (low).—Harlotry; lewdness. [From bitch, sense 1, +
ery.]
1532–3. More, Confut. Tindale, wks., 648, col. 1. Such marriage is
very vnlawfull leckery and plain abhominable bychery.
1598. Marston, Sco. Villanie, I., iv., 188. He will vnline himselfe
from bitchery.
1663–1704. Thomas Brown, Works, Serious and Comical, III., p. 94.
Thither run Sots purely to be drunk that they may ... forget ...
the roguery of their lawyers, the bitchery of their paramours, or
the ingratitude of the world.
(?). Stanyhurst, Description of Ireland, p. 14. The quip sat as
unseemly in his mouth as for a whore to reprehend bitchery, or for an
usurer to condemn simony.
Bitch Party, subs. (popular).—A party composed of women. Originally an
Oxford term for a tea-party, tea being considered a beverage only fit
for women. [From bitch, a woman, + party.] Also hen party (q.v.). Cf.,
Stag party.
1889. C. Whibley, In Cap and Gown, Characters of Freshmen, p. 176.
‘The studious freshman ... goeth to a small bitch-party and findeth
his gown taken “by mistake.”’
Bite, subs. (old).—1. An old slang term for money.—See Bit.