May offend English Other Idioms / Maxims / Sayings

Hello, dear native English ProZers. I'm reading a Stephen King novel, and there is an expression which has left me wondering...

One woman is talking about a neighbor:
[As Pie Carver has been known to say: "There's a word for women like Marielle. It rhymes with the one for how you kick a football."]

Marielle is known around the neighborhood as a "tough bitch", and in the paragraph that precedes that sentence from Pie Carver, King describes Marielle's husband, who, by comparison, is a well-liked man, even though he's an alcoholic. King even describes the couple later in the book as "The Lush and the Bitch".

What I would like to know is the word that has been left unsaid, i.e., the word that rhymes with the one for how you kick a football. I'm thinking "pitch", but that's a wild guess :)

Thanks!!