| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To slip.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To move. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To moult. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To edit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To change or vary. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To relay or shift.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb doff.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (doff) | 1. Remove; "He doffed his hat".[Wordnet]. 2. To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.[Websters]. 3. To strip; to divest; to undress.[Websters]. 4. To put off dress; to take off the hat.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: doffing, doffed, doffs, doffer, doffers, doffingly and doffedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DOFFING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Specialty Definition: doff
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To put off, as dress. And made us doff our easy robes of peace.. | 2: [Verb] To strip or divest; as, he doffs himself.. | 3: [Verb] To put or thrust away; to get rid of. To doff their dire distresses.. | 4: [Verb] To put off; to shift off; with a view to delay. Every day thou doffst me with some device. [This word is, I believe, entirely obsolete in discourse, at least in the United States, but is retained in poetry.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Literature | 1: "Doff thy harness, youth. 2: And tempt not yet the brushes of the war." 3: Doff is do-off, as "Doff your hat." So don is do-ou, as "Don your clothes." Dup is do-up, as "Dup the door" (q.v.). 4: Shakespeare: Troilas and Cressida, v. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To remove a hat as a greeting or mark of respect. (references) | 2: [Verb] To remove or take off, especially of clothing. (references) | |
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| Neel Doff | 16 | Neel Doff | 16 | |
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