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dish bitch

dish bitch

9.9
A person who always washes the dishes at parties or family meals as a joke
  • noun
  • /dɪʃ bɪtʃ/
  • Offensive
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  • Nobody wanted to be the dish bitch after the party ended.

Examples

  • At work, I jokingly called myself the dish bitch since I was always the one cleaning up after lunch.

  • She laughed about being the unofficial dish bitch at her house every night.

  • I’ve been the dish bitch at every family gathering since I was twelve.

  • I guess I'm the dish bitch of the group.

  • Being the dish bitch isn't so bad!

  • After the big dinner, I didn't mind being the dish bitch while everyone else relaxed.

  • He embraced his role as the dish bitch, joking that it was his way of contributing to the team.

Synonyms

dishwasher
vsdish bitch
26 1.1

A person who washes plates and pans in a restaurant or kitchen

is an informal joking self label rather than an official job title
washer-upper
vsdish bitch
  • UK
7.0

A person who washes dishes after a meal

is used jokingly by someone to describe doing that chore

Surface Forms

dish bitch singular
dish bitches plural

Morphology

dish + bitch

The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'dish' (the plates/utensils to be washed) plus 'bitch' (a vulgar label for a person), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the person who does the dishes. The expression is colloquial and derogatory in register, but that pragmatic nuance does not prevent a B1 learner from understanding the basic referent, so it is compositional and transparent.

Etymology

Dish bitch may come from a simple kitchen image: the word dish for the plates and bitch as a rude name for the person left at the sink. That's why people use it jokingly to mean someone who has to do the 'washing dishes' or other unpleasant clean-up work.