rebuffer

English

Etymology 1

rebuff +‎ -er

Noun

rebuffer (plural rebuffers)

1. One who, or that which, rebuffs.
   • 2001, Leonard Sweet, Soultsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture:

     One of the church's great roles is as the great dissenter of every age, the bearer of unwelcome truths, the rebuffer of the wisdoms of the world.

Etymology 2

re- +‎ buffer

Verb

rebuffer (third-person singular simple present rebuffers, present participle rebuffering, simple past and past participle rebuffered)

1. (transitive, computing) To buffer (data) again.
   • 2005, Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet:

     This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.