Definitions for doffs

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doffs doff

Spelling: [dof, dawf]

IPA: /dɒf, dɔf/

Doffs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in doffs (dffos).

Definitions for doffs

noun

1. Textiles. the act of removing bobbins, material, etc., and stripping fibers from a textile machine. the material so doffed.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove or take off, as clothing.
2. to remove or tip (the hat), as in greeting.
3. to throw off; get rid of:
4. Textiles. to strip (carded fiber) from a carding machine. to remove (full bobbins, material, etc.) from a textile machine.

Origin of doffs

1300-50; Middle English, contraction of do off; cf. don¹

Examples for doffs

There were rumors, too, that nuns might be permitted to doff their habits and move through the world like 'normal' people.

Kirby did not have a hat to doff, but his bow in the saddle was as graceful as Drew's.

Without rising, Zuchin asked me to have some vodka and to doff my tunic.

In the fields, the corn-gatherers pause to doff their hats and smile their welcome.

doff your shirt, and it can make you all-powerful, as it does Shane Carwin of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

And she began at once to talk of the puppies, whom she had named Don and doff.

Ivory Coast is “The Elephants,” Nigeria “The Super Eagles,” but doff your cap to Cameroon: “The Indomitable Lions.”

I heard him retorting, as he assisted me to doff my doublet.

They expect some of the neighbours to drink tea, and I must doff my fishing-jacket.

Presently you may doff it for all time, and resume your true estate.