“backbiter”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

backbiter

释义

backbiter|ˈbækˌbaɪtə(r)|
Forms: see the vb.
[f. backbite v. + -er¹.]
One who backbites; a slanderer or secret calumniator.
c1230Ancr. R. 86 Bacbitares þe biteð oðre men bihinden.c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋422 The bacbiter wol torne al thilke goodnes up-so-doun.1440Promp. Parv. 21/2 Bakke⁓bytere, Detractor.1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) ⁋⁋iv, Backbiters which good liuers diffame.1627Sp. without Doors in Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 492 Diogenes being asked what beast bit sorest, answered, Of wilde beasts, the Back-biter; of tame, the Flatterer.1859Tennyson Vivien 673 Face-flatterers and backbiters are the same.
b. (word-play): A biter, or striker, on the back.
1608Tourneur Rev. Trag. ii. ii. 58 Sword thou wast neuer a back-biter yet.

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