baiter

baiter

noun

Definition of BAITER

1

a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another <vowed revenge someday on the baiters who were making his life miserable>

Synonyms baiter, harasser, heckler, mocker, needler, persecutor, quiz, quizzer, ridiculer, taunter, tease, teaser, torturer

Related Words belittler, derider, detractor, giber (or jiber), insulter, jeerer, scoffer, scorner; trash-talker; smart aleck (also smart alec), smarty (or smartie), smarty-pants, wiseacre, wiseguy; kidder, lampooner, satirist; accuser, blamer, troublemaker; assailant, attacker, molester, victimizer; bother, disturber, pest

Near Antonyms defender, deliverer, guard, protector, rescuer, savior (or saviour); comforter, consoler, solace, soother, succorer; bodyguard, champion

2

one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire <my sister is quite the mischievous baiter, always offering candy even though she knows I'm on a diet>

Synonyms baiter, seducer, solicitor

Related Words beguiler, enchantress, siren, temptress; tantalizer; briber, inducer, inveigler, persuader; corrupter (also corruptor), debaser, debaucher, degrader, depraver, perverter, undoer