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Backbiting

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.

    "Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge."

Noun
  1. 1
    The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge. countable, uncountable

    "[…]ending his epistle by saying, "that his uncle having doubtless lent his ear to some old woman's tales and backbiting, he did not choose to place his property in the hands of a spendthrift,[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of backbite form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite + -ing.

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