Doff
[dɒf] or [dɑf]
Definition
(v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
(v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
(v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Put off, lay aside.
Inputed by Jill
Definition
v.t. to do or take off: to rid one's self of.
Checked by Herman
Examples
- When the carriages met again, he stood up in his stanhope; he raised his hand ready to doff his hat; he looked with all his eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Yet could England indeed doff her lordly trappings, and be content with the democratic style of America? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Madame Defarge set wine before the mender of roads called Jacques, who doffed his blue cap to the company, and drank. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The mummers doffed their helmets, and began to eat and drink. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I dare be sworn he did so, said the knight; I was convinced that there was better food in the cell, Holy Clerk, since you first doffed your cowl. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- With that he doffed his hat, and held it out as a begging-box, a brazen grin at the same time crossing his countenance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me--on the contrary, the bonnet was doffed, the bandage displaced, the head advanced. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His appearance was rather suspicious than prepossessing, especially as, instead of doffing his bonnet, he pulled it still deeper over his rugged brow. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He saluted Rowena by doffing his velvet bonnet, garnished with a golden broach, representing St Michael trampling down the Prince of Evil. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Edited by Harold