Word.ws English Dictionary

do of

do of is the alternative spelling of do off.

Meaning of do off

Verb

do off (third-person singular simple present does off, present participle doing off, simple past did off, past participle done off)

  1. (obsolete) To take off (clothing).
    • Than seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I requyre you, do of your helmys, that I may se you.’1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X
  2. (slang) To kill, to bump off

Forms of do of

third-person singular presentdoes of
present participledoing of
pastdid of
past participledone of

Questions about do of

What is do of the alternative spelling of?
Do of is the alternative spelling of do off.

Words near do of in the dictionary

  1. do not want
  2. do nothing
  3. do number one
  4. do number two
  5. do numbers
  6. do of
  7. do off
  8. do one
  9. do one's best
  10. do one's bit
  11. do one's block

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: do of (page history and authors); do off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “do of.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/do_of. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.