ETYMOLOGY
from by- + wipe (sarcastic reproof or rebuff)
EXAMPLE (for n. 1.)
“… Wherefore should ye begin with the devil’s name, descanting upon the number of your opponents? Wherefore that conceit of Legion with a by-wipe? Was it because you would have men take notice how you esteem them, whom through all your book so bountifully you call your brethren? We had not thought that Legion could have furnished the Remonstrant with so many brethren. …”
From: Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus
By John Milton, 1641
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