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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