English Explanatory Dictionary

backbiting

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
adj
  1. Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of backbite

Word forms

backbiting backbitings more backbiting most backbiting

Etymology

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

Derived words

backbitingly
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