countercuff.
A polemical response.
Meaning & usage
A polemical response.
Where this word comes from
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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