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  • noun Present participle of rebutter.

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Examples

  • He glanced across the table at Caris, dressed in snuff-colored servant's livery and silently buttering and rebuttering a muffin which he clearly had no intention of eating.

    The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988

  • While they ate, dipping their toast in the coffee, buttering and rebuttering it, they chattered as tirelessly as if they had been deprived of each other's society and confidence for weeks.

    Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

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