DOG’S WIFE or LADY, PUPPY’S MAMMA. Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Dogged * DollNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes