Definition of Backbitten

1. Verb. (past participle of backbite) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backbitten

1. backbite [v] - See also: backbite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbitten

backbeat
backbeats
backbench
backbencher
backbenchers
backbenches
backbend
backbends
backbit
backbite
backbiter
backbiters
backbites
backbiting
backbitings
backbitten (current term)
backblast
backblasts
backblock
backblocks
backboard
backboard splint
backboards
backbond
backbonding ligand
backbonds
backbone
backboned
backboneless
backbones

Literary usage of Backbitten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"She is я "social success, without money to hack it up, backbitten by inhuman women, loyally admired by men ; the contrasts of her life are ..."

2. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... the shield and support of the slandered and down-trodden duenna- kind, abhorred of apothecaries,1 backbitten by squires, and tricked by pages ! ..."

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