Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who refutes or rebuts.
- noun Law A defendant's pleading in response to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who rebuts or refutes.
- noun An act of rebutting; specifically, in law, an answer, such as a defendant makes to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. Compare
surrebutter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun To apply more
butter to something. - noun One who drives back or repulses
- noun One who makes a
rebuttal . - noun law A
rebuttal ; the answer of adefendant in matter of fact to aplaintiff 'ssurrejoinder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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But neither the official rebutter nor the people's rebutter had the vision or grit to propose transitioning our "unconstitutional, America-raping healthcare bill" into a "private sector job creator" wealthcare bill.
WATCH: Lizz Winstead's Rebuttal To Bachmann, Ryan & Obama Carol Hartsell 2011
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But neither the official rebutter nor the people's rebutter had the vision or grit to propose transitioning our "unconstitutional, America-raping healthcare bill" into a "private sector job creator" wealthcare bill.
Lizz Winstead's Rebuttal To Michele Bachmann's Rebuttal To Paul Ryan's Rebuttal To Obama (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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But neither the official rebutter nor the people's rebutter had the vision or grit to propose transitioning our "unconstitutional, America-raping healthcare bill" into a "private sector job creator"wealthcare bill.
WATCH: Lizz Winstead's Rebuttal To Bachmann, Ryan & Obama Carol Hartsell 2011
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But neither the official rebutter nor the people's rebutter had the vision or grit to propose transitioning our "unconstitutional, America-raping healthcare bill" into a "private sector job creator" wealthcare bill.
Lizz Winstead's Rebuttal To Michele Bachmann's Rebuttal To Paul Ryan's Rebuttal To Obama (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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If you need to bake in shifts, cool and rebutter the tins before refilling with batter.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Caroline seems to be rebutter and fan in chief for JC.
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The first clash was a _butter_ and a _rebutter_, their heads coming together, fairly making the _wool_ fly.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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A swarm of brochures in rejoinder and rebutter issued from the press, and the nineteenth century had come in before the controversy was quite forgotten.
The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871
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Gien 't warna for what I see in him, I wad hae a gran 'rebutter to her claim; for hoo cud ony wuman's ain son hae sic a scunner at her as I hae
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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Now he's hyping Bachmann; it's the Tea Party Express that's sponsoring her speech opposite official GOP rebutter, Rising Star™ Paul Ryan.
Crooks and Liars Heather 2011
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