backbite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb say mean things
    bitch.

WordNet

Back"bite` intransitive verb
Etymology
2nd back, n., + bite
Definitions
  1. To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
Back"bite` intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To censure or revile the absent.
    They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

Webster 1913