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backbite

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Definitions

  1. say mean things

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
  • Gumshoe: You're not gonna get me to backbite a woman with a whip. No way.

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