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Backbiting vs Slender - What's the difference?

backbiting | slender |

As adjectives the difference between backbiting and slender

is that backbiting is slandering or speaking badly of a person without that person's knowledge while slender is thin; slim.

As a noun backbiting

is the action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.

As a verb backbiting

is .

backbiting

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
  • * 1303 , Robert Manning of Brune, Handlyng synne
  • No custummable bakbytyng God....
  • * 1862 , Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
  • Not given to backbiting .

    Etymology 2

    From backbite.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Slandering or speaking badly of a person without that person's knowledge.
  • * 1580 , Thomas Tusser, A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie
  • Backbiting talk that flattering blabs know wily how to blenge.
  • * 1873 , Rhoda Broughton, Nancy
  • Am I to have a backbiting wife?

    Verb

    (head)
  • slender

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Thin; slim.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
  • (Gaelic languages)  Palatalized.
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