Obs. rare. Also 6–7 kiri(e-)mirie-. [app. of fanciful coinage: the last element is prob. BUFF sb.1] Some kind of blow or buffet; perhaps a loud but not severe blow, such as one given in sport with the hollowed hand.
(Halliwell’s statement that the term denoted ‘a kind of material of which jerkins were formerly sometimes made’ appears to be quite unsupported by evidence.]
1598. Florio, Tartóffola, the … black and blue of a blow or hurt. Also a blow giuen with ones knuckles vpon ones head. Also a kirimiriebuff.
1602. Middleton, Blurt, Master Const., I. i. 223. Trickes; trickes; kerry merry buffe; how now lad, in a traunce?
1659. Torriano, Buffettáre, to buffet or clap one on the mouth, to give one a kirie-mirie-buff.
