different between bitching vs calumny

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t???/

Adjective

bitching (superlative bitchingest)

1. (slang) Excellent; outstanding.
2. (slang, less common) Awful, terrible.

   Just my bitching luck.

Alternative forms

• bitchin'
• bitchin
• bitchen

Verb

bitching

1. present participle of bitch

Derived terms

• Bitching Betty

Noun

bitching (plural bitchings)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) A spiteful criticism or complaint.
   • 1997, Gary Russell, Deadfall

     Grierson's innocence - although Townsend would say it was naivety – was rather sweet and attractive amid the sour and petty bitchings of the other women.

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English calumn?e (“false accusation, slander; (law) objection raised in bad faith”), borrowed from Old French calomnie (“slander, calumny”) (modern French calomnie), or directly from its etymon Latin calumnia (“false statement, misrepresentation; false accusation, malicious charge”), perhaps related to calvor (“to deceive”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?elh?- or *?h?l-. The English word is a doublet of challenge.

The verb is derived from French calomnier (“to slander”), from Late Latin calumni?re, from Latin calumpni?r?, calumni?r?, present active infinitive of calumnior (“to blame unjustly, misrepresent, calumniate; (law) to accuse falsely, bring false information against”), from calumnia (see above) + -or.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?kæl?mni/
• Verb:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /k??l?mni/
• Hyphenation: ca?lum?ny

Noun

calumny (countable and uncountable, plural calumnies)

1. (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
2. (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.

   Synonyms: calumniousness, defamation, obloquy, traducement, vilification; see also Thesaurus:slander

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Verb

calumny (third-person singular simple present calumnies, present participle calumnying, simple past and past participle calumnied)

1. (transitive, formal) To make false accusations or levy false charges against a person with the intent to tarnish that person's reputation or standing; to calumniate.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:defame

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