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单词 counterbuff
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counterbuffn.

Forms: Also 1600s counterbough.
Etymology: counter- prefix 2b, 2j
Obsolete.
1. A blow in the contrary direction; a blow given in return; the blow or shock of a recoil.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > rebound > [noun] > shock of
counterbuff?1578
rejolt1694
counterblow1860
the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > in contrary direction
counterbuff?1578
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > return blow or attack
countertailc1430
counterbuff?1578
countercuff1589
revie1589
cross-blow1590
counterblow1706
riposte1854
counterstroke1876
the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > returning a blow > return blow or stroke
countertailc1430
counterbuff?1578
countercuff1589
revie1589
counterstroke1596
after-blow1607
counterblow1655
return1702
return stroke1838
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 31 The buff at the man, and the coounterbuff at the hors.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xvii. lxvii. 133 Yet was the counterbuffe thereof so great, The knight had much a do to keepe his seate.
1594 Kyd Cornelio v, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) V. 243 One while the top [of the tree] doth almost touch the earth, And then it riseth with a counterbuff.
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. D2v Had he offerd but the least counter-buffe, by this hand I was prepared for him.
1613 H. Wotton Let. 31 Mar. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 406 Sommerset, who with a counter-buff had almost set himself out of the Saddle.
a1637 B. Jonson Kings Entertainm. at Welbeck sig. Oo2v in Wks. (1640) III The blow You give Sir Quintin, and the Cuffe You scape o' th' Sand-bag's Counterbuffe.
figurative.1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 258 b If Luther should use this..counterbuffe..agaynst your rusty, clownish, and illfavored Divinitie.1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 23 Where they give the Romanist one buffe, they receive two counterbuffs.
2. A rebuff, a check.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > a denial or refusal
nayc1390
negation?a1425
non1551
negativec1571
counterbuff1579
say-nay1657
repellent1777
repellence1817
raspberry1919
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff
rebuke?a1513
counterbuff1579
damp1584
check?c1600
turnagain1630
rebuff1672
knock1898
knockback1898
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 833 There fell misliking betwixt Cicero and Cato, for this counterbuffe he had giuen him.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 263 He did not commonly suffer any great Humane Prosperity, to continue long, without some check or counterbuff.
3. An encounter; an exchange of blows.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight
bicker1297
fightc1300
tirpeilc1330
ragea1393
stradec1400
intermell1489
cockfighta1513
skirm1534
bustle1579
pell-mellc1586
brabble1587
jostle1607
scufflea1616
counterbuff1632
mêléea1648
roil1690
tussle1749
scrimmage1780
turn-up1810
scrape1812
pounding match1815
mellay1819
struggle1840
mix-up1841
scrap1846
rough-up1891
turn-to1893
push and shove1895
bagarre1897
stoush1908
dogfight1910
bundle1936
sort-out1937
yike1940
bassa-bassa1956
punch-up1958
thump-up1967
1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie 15 Mischiefe required there should be distance betweene such terrible counterbuffes.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. v. 56 Sir Edward Harbert is return'd, having had some clashings and counterbuffs with the Favorite Luynes.
1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play Ded. Verses sig. A vj Nor my leasure sings The Counterbuffs of the foure painted Kings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

counterbuffv.

/ˈkaʊntəbʌf/
Etymology: < counterbuff n.
archaic.
transitive. To give a counterbuff to; to strike in return or in the opposite direction; to meet (a blow) with a return blow; to rebuff.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > give return blow to
counterbuff1579
counterblow1632
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > rebuff
rebut1488
reject1529
counterbuff1579
rebuffa1586
repel1593
slighta1616
to blow off1631
squab1812
respue1818
snout1916
stiff-arm1927
to knock back1930
to brush off1941
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. Gloss. Emblem, Whom Cuddye doth counterbuff with a byting..prouerbe.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. E2 To counterbuffe and beate backe all those ouerthwart blowes wherewith you haue charged me.
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) ii. xlii. 71 Have we not enemies to counterbuffe, Enow.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 553 Stun'd with the diff'rent Blows; then shoots amain Till counterbuff'd she stops, and sleeps again.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 293 A dart..Which by th' hoarse bronze was straightway counterbuffed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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