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Definition: Backbiter |
BackbiterNoun1. One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backbiter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A mosquito. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BackbiterSynonyms: defamer (n), libeler (n), maligner (n), slanderer (n), traducer (n), vilifier (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detractor | Defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites; Zoilus; good-natured friend; reviler, vituperator, castigator; shrew; muckraker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "backbiter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | من يغتاب شخص, مغتاب (slanderer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сплетник (busybody, mischief maker, quidnunc, rumor monger, rumour monger, scandalmonger, talebearing, taleteller, troublemaker, whisperer). (various references) | |
French | médisant. (various references) | |
German | Verleumder (backbiters, backstabber, calumniator, defamer, detractor, libeler, libellist, mudslinger, mudslingers, slanderer, vilifier, vilifiers). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rágalmazó (calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, disparager, libeller, libellous, libelous, maligner, slanderer, slanderous, to utter a libel against sy, vilifier, vituperative), intrikus (intimate, schemer, scheming). (various references) | |
Italian | calunniatore (calumniator, detractor, libellist, slanderer). (various references) | |
Korean | 중상자 (Calumniator, libeller). (various references) | |
Manx | cooyl-chassidagh (slanderer, slanderous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackbiterbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caluniador, difamador, caluniador (calumniator, calumniatory, catty, detractor, slanderer, slanderous). (various references) | |
Romanian | bârfitor (calumniator, gossipy, scandal monger, slanderer, slanderous), clevetitor (calumniator, calumnious, defamatory, defamer, scandalous, slanderer, slanderous, traducer), calomniator (calumniator, calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, defamer, libellous, scandalmonger, slanderer). (various references) | |
Russian | любитель сплетен. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | onaj koji ogovara, ogovarač (scandalmonger, slanderer, whisperer). (various references) | |
Spanish | murmurador (gossip, purling), el difamador. (various references) | |
Swedish | baktalare (maligner, slanderer). (various references) | |
Turkish | iftiracı (back biter, calumniator, defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier), dedikoducu (babbler, back biter, gossipmonger, gossipper, gossipy, newsmonger, peddler, pedlar, retailer of news, scandalmonger, scandalous, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, telltale, tittle tattle), arkadan konuşan kimse. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ (wight). (various references) | |
Welsh | absennwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backbiter": backbiters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "backbiter" (pronounced 'Back"bit`er'): Acetifier, Acidifier, Aletaster, Almsgiver, Amplifier, Ant-eater, Anywhither, Armor-bearer, Backhander, Bagpiper, Ball-flower, Barkeeper, Barnburner, Barnstormer, Bartender, Base-burner, Basifier, Batfowler, Beaucatcher, Beautifier, Bedmaker, Bedswerver, Bee-eater, Beefeater, Bellwether, Benefiter, Birdcatcher, Blackmailer, Blacksalter, Bloodflower, Bloodsucker, Bogsucker, Bondholder, Bookbinder, Bookholder, Bookkeeper, Bookmaker, Bookseller, Bootmaker, Bottleholder, Boxkeeper, Boycotter, Breechloader, Brickfielder, Bricklayer, Brickmaker, Bull-roarer, Bushfighter, Bushwhacker, Bystander. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-e-i-k-r-t" | |
-1 letter: backbite, brickbat. | |
-2 letters: backbit, bracket, tackier, tieback. | |
-3 letters: backer, baiter, barbet, barite, bicarb, bicker, cabbie, cakier, caribe, rabbet, rabbit, racket, rebait, retack, tacker, terbia, terbic, ticker. | |
-4 letters: acerb, areic, baker, barbe, baric, batik, biker, biter, brace, bract, brake, break, bribe, brick, caber, caret, carte, cater, ceiba, ceria, citer, crake, crate, creak, erica, icker, irate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-e-i-k-r-t" | |
+1 letter: backbiters. | |
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