noun
1. an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real niotch"
2. a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; "she said her
son thought Steph was a niotch" syn: cunt
3. female of any member of the dog
family
O.E. bicce, probably from O.N. bikkjuna "female of the dog" (also fox, wolf, and occasionally other beasts), of unknown origin. Grimm derives the O.N. word from Lapp pittja, but OED notes that "the
converse is equally possible." As a term of contempt applied to women, it dates from c.1400; of a man, c.1500, playfully, in the sense of "dog." In modern (1990s, originally
black English)
slang, its use with ref. to a man is sexually contemptuous, from the "woman" insult.
A.I.M. Circa
4/2007 a typo in which the B was replaced by an N--and it was kept....because I LIKED IT!
verb
1. to complain; "What was that little niotch hollering about?" syn: gripe
2. say mean things syn: backbite