doffing
present participle ofdoff
doff
verb[T]
old-fashioneduk/dɒf/us/dɑːf/toremoveyourhat, usually to showrespect
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donverbformal
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandonment
- banish
- be scattered to the four windsidiom
- bin
- castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
- dumping
- erase
- erasure
- evacuate
- evacuation
- exorcism
- expunge
- shrug
- shrugsomethingoff
- shuck
- shucksomethingoff
- shufflesomethingoff
- sling
- toss
- turf
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Physical gestures of respect
Idiom
doffyourhat tosomeone/something
Examplesofdoffing
doffing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Or perhaps, slightly more concretely, the norm requires each person to show proper respect and courtesy bydoffingsome item of apparel when entering a church.
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It is not thedoffingof the hat that is important but the bowing.
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They aredoffingtheir caps to higher spending.
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I am in favour of keeping the ceremony ofdoffinghats, but once rather than three times.
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There has been talk about thedoffingof the hat three times.
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They were absolutely dumbfounded at thedoffingof the hats, but they loved the rest of the ceremony.
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Doffingor piecing is no apprenticeship to them because they do not continue in the trade.
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All were very impressed with the significance of the ceremony, except for thedoffingof the hats.
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I will undertake that her fingers and mine will be able to do thedoffingthat is necessary on the spinning frames.
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I believe that it would be a great improvement if we were simply to omit thedoffingof the hats.
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We were stilldoffinghats then.
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The only possible change which might be acceptable is that the part of the ceremony which is described as "placing" could be shortened by sitting anddoffingonce only.
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This action is termed "doffing" and is done manually on this machine.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.And yet at the same time this opening salvo also looks to the past;doffingits cap to an illustrious ancestor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thread guides are on a thread rail which allows them to be hinged out of the way fordoffingor piecing a broken thread.
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