backbiter

Etymology

From Middle English bakbitere, bakbytere, bacbitere, equivalent to backbite + -er.

noun

  1. A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person's back: that is, out of their sight and hearing.
    She better not hear none of them old backbiters talking about her husband! 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 143

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