Crossword clues for doff
doff
- Tip one's topper
- Remove, as a cap
- Remove politely, as one's hat
- Tip, as one's cap
- Tip, as a toque
- Tip, as a top hat
- Tip, as a fedora
- Tip the cap
- Tip politely [SEE NOTE ABOVE]
- Tip a hat
- Take off, as a topper
- Take off politely, as one's hat
- Take off a topper
- Take off (clothing) — remove (hat)
- Respectfully tip
- Remove, as one's lid
- Remove, as clothing
- Remove, as apparel
- Remove respectfully, as a hat
- Remove respectfully
- Remove politely, as a hat
- Remove for checking, perhaps
- Raise, as one's hat
- Politely remove, as a hat
- Opposite of "don."
- Lift to greet
- Flip one's lid?
- Remove, as a hat
- Tip, as a hat
- Tip, in a way
- Tip politely, as a hat
- Remove out of respect
- Lift in greeting
- Remove, in a way
- Take off (hat)
- Tip one's bowler
- Remove one's hat
- "Romeo, ___ thy name . . . ": Juliet
- Tip (one's hat)
- Remove a bowler
- Take one's hat off
- Lift Democrat offensive
- Lift (a hat)
- Remove from board of firm or suspend officially
- Remove fellows attending party
- Tip, as one's hat
- Remove, as one's hat
- Remove clothing
- Tip, as a cap
- Remove (hat)
- Tip, as a topper
- Tip respectfully
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doff \Doff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Doffing.] [Do + off. See Do, v. t., 7.]
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To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
And made us doff our easy robes of peace. -- Shak.
At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. -- Emerson.
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To strip; to divest; to undress.
Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear. -- Crashaw.
Doff \Doff\, v. i. To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., contraction of do off, preserving the original sense of do as "put." At the time of Johnson's Dictionary [1755] the word was "obsolete, and rarely used except by rustics," but it was saved from extinction (along with don) by Sir Walter Scott. Related: Doffed; doffing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context clothing English) to remove or take off, especially of clothing
WordNet
v. remove; "He doffed his hat"
Usage examples of "doff".
The General reined in, doffed his bicorne hat, then cast a cold glance at Spears and Sharpe.
Terence said and doffed his boater, which unfortunately still had a good deal of water in the brim.
With a quick jerk, Ruark doffed the hat and held it in both hands before him like a bondslave suddenly confronted by his master.
It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood!
Quantrill quickly doffed his helmet, pressed its detent, let the visor and occipital segment slide into their nested positions.
He dropped the gloves on the table beside her and, doffing his cloak, settled himself in a chair on her right.
At once the room emptied and everyone began to gather, doffing their hats, even Mrs.
Guiscard, doffing his helmet for the coolness and hanging it on his saddle bow.
Kahn and Freer refused to show and Schacht finally beat her but doffed his cap.
He doffed the ghillie suit and leaned against a boulder, in full view of the group in the distance.
The recluses were stupefied when I told them that the fat priest was Cardinal Bernis, as they had an idea that a cardinal can never doff the purple.
Through the imitations of mist, gold webs glittered and doffed to a hexatonic melody.
Finding Ali awaiting them, he retreated to the dressing room, where he doffed his clothes and donned the kaftan his wife had made for him.
He turned back to Tomochichi, who was doffing his matchcoat, revealing the dark wings tattooed on his chest and torso.
The firelight gleamed from the polished skin of Duodecimus Munger, who had doffed the formal toga and assumed the simple loincloth of the jungle.