Found 2 items, similar to backstair.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: backstair backstair adj : secret and sly or sordid; “backstairs gossip”; “his low backstairs cunning”- A.L.Guerard; “backstairs intimacies”; “furtive behavior” [syn: backstairs, furtive]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Backstair Backstairs \Back"stairs`\, Backstair \Back"stair`\, a. Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip. Syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, on the quiet(predicate), secret, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover, underground. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] A backstairs influence. --Burke. [1913 Webster] Female caprice and backstair influence. --Trevelyan. [1913 Webster]