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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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