different between doff vs doffer

English

Etymology

From Middle English doffen (“take off”), contraction of Old English d?n of. Equivalent to a blend of do +? off. Compare don, dup, dout, gauf.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Verb

doff (third-person singular simple present doffs, present participle doffing, simple past and past participle doffed)

1. (clothing) To remove or take off (something such as clothing).

   Synonym: take off

   Antonym: don

   • At night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
2. To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect.

3. To get rid of, to throw off.
4. (reflexive) To strip; to divest; to undress.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple

     Heaven's King, who doffs himself weak flesh to wear.

Derived terms

• doffer
• doff one's hat to

Translations

Yola

Alternative forms

• daff

Etymology

From Middle English doffen.

Verb

doff (simple past doft)

1. to strip

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

doff +? -er

Noun

doffer (plural doffers)

1. (textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
2. A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.

Derived terms

• doffer shaft
• ring doffer

Related terms

• doffing comb

References

Anagrams

• fforde, offer'd, offred

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.f?r/
• Hyphenation: dof?fer
• Rhymes: -?f?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch duvers, duve (“dove, pigeon”).

Noun

doffer m (plural doffers, diminutive doffertje n, feminine duif or duivin)

1. male dove, a cock pigeon

   Synonyms: duiver, mannetjesduif

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

doffer

1. Comparative form of dof