rebuffer

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

rebuff +‎ -er

Noun edit

rebuffer (plural rebuffers)

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 edit

re- +‎ buffer

Verb edit

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

(transitive, computing) To buffer (data) again.
- 2005, Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet:
  This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.