countercuff

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A polemical response. archaic,rare
    — In Poetaster, or The Arraignment (printed 1602) Jonson gave a countercuff to his antagonists by ridiculing Marston as Crispinus and Dekker as Demetrius, and presenting himself as Horace.

词形变化

countercuffs plural

词源

From counter- + cuff (“blow, hit”), first used in the title of the 1589 polemical tract A Countercuffe giuen to Martin Iunior by the pseudonymous "venturuous, hardie, and renowned" Cavaliero Pasquill.
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