rebutter

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UK/ɹɪˈbʌtə(ɹ)/US/ɹɪˈbʌtɚ/US[ɹɪ̈ˈbʌɾɚ]

noun

One who drives back or repulses

Scrabble 10

Meanings

rebutter1

nounrebutter (plural rebutters)

plural rebutters

  1. One who drives back or repulses
  2. One who makes a rebuttal.
  3. lawA rebuttal; the answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

rebutter2

verbrebutter (third-person singular simple present rebutters, present participle rebuttering, simple past and past participle rebuttered)

present singular third person rebutters · participle present rebuttering · participle past rebuttered · past rebuttered

  1. transitiveTo apply butter to (something) again.

    'Holy cow!' Johnny absent-mindedly rebuttered a piece of toast. 'And we thought climate-change was bad!'

    2006, Tango Wayne, Scandinal, page 78
    2 more examples

    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.

    1996 June, Craig D. Reed, “'Rumble in the Bronx' Stars Hits the Big Time in America After Years of Success in Asia”, in Black Belt Magazine, page 124

    It 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.

    1997, Josef Hiršal, Michael Henry Heim, A Bohemian Youth, page 67

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument

noun(law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder

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Origin

rebutter · verb

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gʷṓws
  7. Proto-Hellenic*gʷous
  8. Ancient Greekβοῦς (boûs)
  9. Proto-Indo-European*tewh₂-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*tuh₂rós
  11. Proto-Hellenic*tūrós
  12. Ancient Greekτυρός (turós)
  13. Ancient Greekβούτῡρον (boútūron)
  14. Latinbūtȳrum
  15. Proto-West Germanic*buterā
  16. Old Englishbutere
  17. Middle Englishbuter
  18. Englishbutter
  19. Englishrebutter

From re- + butter.

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APA

rebutter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebutter

MLA

“rebutter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebutter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rebutter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rebutter.

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