Basic Trope: A character calls another (female) character a witch, where the word bitch would be more appropriate.
- Straight: After Bob finds out Alice has cheated on him, he calls her a witch.
- Exaggerated: Alice kills Bob's entire family, steals his priceless heirlooms, burns down his house, and kicks his dog a few times, but Bob still insists on calling her a witch.
- Downplayed: After Alice uses magic to give Bob a paper cut, he calls her a witch.
- Justified:
- Alice is a witch and did all those heinous things with her magic.
- Bob is so overwhelmed with anger that "witch" is the only good insult that occurs to him.
- Bob doesn't like to use gendered slurs.
- The story takes place in a world where "bitch" is only used to mean "female dog" and "witch" is used as a gendered insult.
- Bob can't say "bitch" because he's in the presence of children or people that he knows would be upset if they heard him use such language.
- Bob has never heard the word "bitch" before.
- Inverted: "Burn the bitch!"
- Gender-Inverted: After Alice finds out Bob has cheated on her, she calls him a "dastard" instead of a "bastard".
- Subverted: "Alice, you wicked little bitch!"
- Double Subverted: "Alice, you wicked little bi... g fat witch!"
- Parodied:
- "ALICE, YOU FUCKING SHIT-HEADED WITCH!"
- Bob calls an actual female dog a witch.
- Alice is an intelligent dog riding a broomstick and raining magical destruction down from the sky. Everyone is confused as to which word to use.
- People curse using phrases like "Son of a witch" and "Payback's a witch."
- Zig-Zagged: In front of kids or The Swear Jar, Bob will call Alice a witch, but other times he'll call her a bitch.
- Averted: Bob has no problems with using the B-word.
- Enforced:
- The characters say "witch" instead of "bitch" because the work is intended for children or because the production team for some reason isn't allowed to include gendered slurs in the show's dialogue.
- In a World of Funny Animals, "bitch" would be a fantastic racial slur. Due to the audience bringing up that piece of Fridge Logic, the creators replaced it with the closest thing they got.
- Lampshaded: "Why 'witch'? 'Bitch' would have conveyed the point much better."
- Invoked:Bob: Alice, you bi—Carol: You can't say that here!Bob: —g fat witch!
- Exploited: An actual witch uses the fact that everyone utters "witch" as an insult to misdirect people who accuse her of witchcraft.
- Defied: "I don't care if I'm allowed to say it or not! You are still a bitch!"
- Discussed: "Nobody around here is ever willing to use the B-word."
- Conversed: "What is so heinous about calling her a bitch?"
- Implied:Bob: ...itch!
- Played for Laughs: Bob is righteously angry at Alice, but he insults her using terms so mild they loop back around to being inappropriate.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice knows perfectly well what Bob means by calling her "witch" and is deeply insulted by it.
- It turns out that Alice is an actual witch and the incredibly venomous way Bob screams the term "witch" is mistaken by her as him having Fantastic Racism.
- Played for Horror: Bob is an anti-witch racist. Everybody else blinded by the masquerade thinks he is just using a funny censorship word, but in reality he is calling Alice (an actual witch, although they call themselves a different term In-Universe) their equivalent of the N-word with a venom that usually involves burning crosses and people hanging from trees by the neck.
Back to Witch with a Capital "B", you witch.
