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countercuffs

countercuffs is the plural of countercuff.

Meaning of countercuff

Noun

countercuff (plural countercuffs)

  1. (archaic, rare) A polemical response.
    • 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.1941, George Sampson, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, page 299

Questions about countercuffs

What is countercuffs the plural of?
Countercuffs is the plural of countercuff.

Words near countercuffs in the dictionary

  1. countercrossed
  2. countercrosses
  3. countercrossing
  4. countercry
  5. countercuff
  6. countercuffs
  7. countercult
  8. countercultist
  9. countercultists
  10. countercultural
  11. counterculturalism

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