[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That slanders or speaks ill of the absent.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. c. 5. The bacbitende priueli to his neȝhebore.
1580. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 190. Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, II. 280. Am I to have a backbiting wife?
