counterbuff

English

Etymology

From counter- +‎ buff.

Noun

counterbuff (plural counterbuffs)

1. A buff (strike) in return; a counterblow.

Verb

counterbuff (third-person singular simple present counterbuffs, present participle counterbuffing, simple past and past participle counterbuffed)

1. To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 553:

     The giddy Ship betwixt the VVinds and Tides / Forc'd back, and forvvards in a Circle rides, / Stun'd with the diff'rent Blows; then ſhoots amain / Till counterbuff'd ſhe ſtops, and ſleeps again.