backbite – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
backbite
v.
slander one who is not present, gossip, disparage, libel
Backbiting
Backbiting,
backstabbing, or
tale-bearing is to
slander someone in their absence — to bite them behind their back. Originally, backbiting referred to an unsporting attack from the rear in the blood sport of
bearbaiting.
backbite
Verb
1. say mean things
(synonym) bitch
(hypernym) complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
(derivation) defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer
Backbite
(v. i.)
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
(v. i.)
To censure or revile the absent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Backbite
In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defaming the absent.
