• Rebutter

    Origin 1

    Full definition of rebutter

    Noun

    rebutter

    (plural rebutters)
    1. One who drives back or repulses
    2. One who makes a rebuttal.
    3. (legal) A rebuttal; the answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

    Origin 2

    Noun

    1. To apply butter to something again.
      • 1996 June, Craig D. Reed, Black Belt Magazine, "'Rumble in the Bronx' Stars Hits the Big Time in America After Years of Success in Asia", page 124:He dared to rebutter his bread with the original flavor of his stoicism, the western, but has once again left such films behind to die and has moved on.
      • 1997, Josef HirÅ¡al and Michael Henry Heim, A Bohemian Youth, page 67It consisted of a thick white porridge leavened with yeast and eaten together with a boiled potato. It was often served seven days in a row, which meant it was reheated and rebuttered seven times over.
      • 2006, Tango Wayne, Scandinal, page 78:'Holy cow!' Johnny absent-mindedly rebuttered a piece of toast. 'And we thought climate-change was bad!'

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