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Backfriend - What does it mean?

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backfriend

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A false friend; a secret enemy.
  • * c. 1702 , Roger L'Estrange:
    • Set the restless importunities of talebearers and backfriends against fair words and professions
  • * South:
    • Far is our church from encroaching upon the civil power; as some who are backfriends to both would maliciously insinuate.
  • * 1822 , Scott, Nigel :
    • Ye have back-friends , my lord, that is, un-friends, or to be plain, enemies.
  • A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
  • * 1825 , Mich. Bruce's Lectures:
    • "Yet well's our day for this, we have a good backfriend that will gar our cause stand right again."
  • * 2010 , David Carkeet, Double Negative :
    • I've got a backfriend' to meet.'” “A '' backfriend' ?” “Yes. Evidently he had a late-night appointment with someone at Wabash. That was the way he liked to do it.”
  • A hangnail.

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.