Backbite Definition

băkbīt
backbit, backbites, backbiting, backbitten
verb
backbit, backbites, backbiting
To speak spitefully or slanderously about (another).
American Heritage
To speak maliciously about (an absent person); slander.
Webster's New World
To speak spitefully or slanderously about a person.
American Heritage

To make spiteful slanderous or defamatory statements about someone.

Wiktionary

(informal) To attack from behind or when out of earshot with spiteful or defamatory remarks.

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noun

One who engages in backbiting; a backbiter.

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Other Word Forms of Backbite

Noun

Singular:
backbite
Plural:
backbites

Origin of Backbite

  • From Middle English bakbiten, bacbiten, equivalent to back +‎ bite. Cognate with Icelandic bakbíta (“to backbite, vilify”).

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