doff

dɒf

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#1·8h ago

(obsolete, rare) Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.

Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.

Origin: The is derived from Late , a of , don off, from , from dōn + of. Dōn is derived from , from , ultimately from . . Compare don#Verb (by surface analysis, do + on), dout (do + out), dup (do + up). The is derived from the verb. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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