[perh. f. BITCH sb.1 sense 1.]
1. trans. To hang back. rare.
1777. Burke, Letter, in Corresp. (1844), II. 157. Norton [Speaker] bitched a little at last; but though he would recede, Fox stuck to his motion.
2. trans. To spoil, to bungle.
Mod. colloq. ‘What a mess he made of it! he thoroughly bitched the business.’
