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Biter   /bˈaɪtər/   Listen
noun
Biter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters."
2.
One who cheats; a sharper. (Colloq.)





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"Biter" Quotes from Famous Books



... change his hand. He ventured on a comedy, and produced The Biter; with which, though it was unfavourably treated by the audience, he was himself delighted; for he is said to have sat in the house laughing with great vehemence, whenever he had, in his own opinion, produced a jest. But, finding that he and the ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson
... Everything has been against me. If you only knew—but—" (and her head bowed lower). Then she added, hastily, "My maid has been false, and I must have appeared more heartless than ever." But, with biter shame and sorrow, she remembered who must have been the inspirer of the treachery, and, though she never spoke of it again, she feared that Dennis suspected it also. It was one of those painful things that must be buried, even as the grave closes over ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe
... that's a biter,' replied the captain, shaking his head. 'But so long as you and me ...
— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... he began so he went on. It never got so far as a hanging matter with him, to be sure; but he had some narrow escapes of penal servitude; and once it was a case of the biter bit.' ...
— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy
... writer, this nonsense he wrote; The fighter (an editor) fote; The swimmer, he swam; The skimmer, he skam; And the biter was ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 - Volume 1, Number 10 • Various


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