Definitions for rebuff

rebuff re·buff

Spelling: [noun ri-buhf, ree-buhf; verb ri- Rebuff is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in rebuff (beffru).

Definitions for rebuff

noun

  1. a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
  2. a peremptory refusal of a request, offer, etc.; snub.
  3. a check to action or progress.

verb (used with object)

  1. to give a rebuff to; check; repel; refuse; drive away.

Origin of rebuff

1580-90; Middle French rebuffer Italian ribuffare to disturb, reprimand, derivative of ribuffo (noun), equivalent to ri- re- + buffo puff; see b

Examples for rebuff

March 2012: “In rebuff to Obama, Abbas says he will send ultimatum to Israel.”

Not only did she rebuff his awkward advance in person, she went home and did some sleuthing.

At the house of an old lady of seventy, a paralytic, the rebuff was of a different kind.

Yet even from this rebuff he managed to deftly extract a compliment.

Subconsciously his busy ego was finding solace after last night's rebuff.

People do fear a rebuff wonderfully, and all her audacity was in her thoughts.

Grant grinned at Miss Georgie, forgetting for the moment his rebuff that morning.

Twas as though he must suffer the rebuff with no offended question.

Kate pretended to be angry at the rebuff, and pouted her lips, but her eyes were beaming.

Madame Beattie seemed not to suspect the possibility of rebuff.

Word Value for rebuff
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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