bitchinglyadv.
/ˈbɪtʃɪŋli/, U.S. /ˈbɪtʃɪŋli/ U.S. colloquial.
1. As an intensifier: very, extremely; = bitching adv.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly
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1923 E. Hemingway Let. 13 Oct. (2013) II. 59 I'm so..damned, bitchingly, sickeningly tired that anything I do will be of little value.
1963 London Mag. Feb. 40 There was, Im [sic] bitchingly glad to tell you, a cop whom I met in an extension of the same world of 42nd Street.
1996 Stars & Stripes 3 Feb. (Beyond Game Mag.) 13/1 The note from Brian said, ‘How bitchingly kind of you,’ which I got a kick out of.
2006 A. Reynolds Galactic North (2008) 277 Bitchingly cold, but not frozen.
2. Complainingly, resentfully. Also: in a bitchy manner; bitchily.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adverb]
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cattishly1913
cattily1924
bitchily1961
bitchingly1970
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adverb]
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murmuringly1866
grouchily1906
bitchingly1970
1970 Algona Upper Des Moines (Iowa) 3 Dec. ii. 6/2 Why should two working factories..sit on their swivel seats awaiting children to hungrily cry and stockholders to bitchingly wail.
1983 Advocate (Los Angeles) 6 Jan. 49/1 ‘I'm sick of homos,’ says Calvin, wealthy, 50, tired, at the start of John Caffey's bitchingly funny The Coming Out Party.
2003 D. S. Passman All you need to know about Music Business (ed. 5) xii. 140 They grudgingly, grumblingly, bitchingly pay the excess, but they charge it against anything they can grab.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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