sonuvabitch

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Noun

sonuvabitch (plural sonuvabitches or sonsuvbitches)

  1. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) Alternative spelling of son of a bitch.
    • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:
      The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.
    • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)
      MICHAEL: Clemenza promised Rosato three territories in the Bronx after he died, and then you took over and welched.
      PENTANGELI: Clemenza promised them nothing, he hated the sonsuvbitches.
    • 2011 July 12, Laura Goode, Sister Mischief‎[1], Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 275:
      "Holla, balla," she calls when she sees me approaching. "What's crappenin'?" "You old polecat sonuvabitch,” I crow, tackling her. "You planned a 4H meeting without me."
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