BACKBIT

BACKBITE

backbite, bitch

(verb) say mean things

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

backbit

simple past tense and past participle of backbite

Source: Wiktionary


BACKBITE

Back"bite`, v. i. Etym: [2nd back, n., + bite]

Definition: To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

Back"bite`, v. i.

Definition: To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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