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coff

/kɒf/

coff verb: to buy, purchase. Also the eye dialect spelling of cough.

Verb

coff (third-person singular simple present coffs, present participle coffing, simple past and past participle coffed or coft)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To buy, purchase.
    • I got a little manikin, I set him on my thoomiken;
      I saddled him, I bridled him, I sent him to the tooniken:
      I coffed a pair o' garters to tie his little hosiken;1904, Robert Ford, Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories

Also used as

coff is also the eye dialect spelling of cough.

Forms of coff

third-person singular presentcoffs
present participlecoffing
past participlecoffed
pastcoffed
past participlecoft
pastcoft

Origin of coff

Attested from the 15th century. Likely from Scots coft, or from Middle Dutch or other Germanic cofte. Compare German kaufen.

See cough

Questions about coff

What does coff mean?
Coff means to buy, purchase.
What part of speech is coff?
Coff is a verb.
How do you pronounce coff?
Coff is pronounced /kɒf/.
What is the past tense of coff?
The past tense of coff is coffed.

Words near coff in the dictionary

  1. cofermentations
  2. coferments
  3. cofermion
  4. cofermions
  5. Cofers
  6. coff
  7. coffa
  8. coffan
  9. coffans
  10. coffearin
  11. coffearine

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