The meaning of Backbite and additional information.

Backbite(v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Backbite(v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.

Backbiter(n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.