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doffings

doffings is the plural of doffing.

Meaning of doffing

Noun

doffing (plural doffings)

  1. The act by which an item of clothing is doffed.
    • Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd

Questions about doffings

What is doffings the plural of?
Doffings is the plural of doffing.

Words near doffings in the dictionary

  1. doffers
  2. doffest
  3. doffeth
  4. doffing
  5. doffing one's hat to
  6. doffings
  7. doffs
  8. doffs one's hat to
  9. DoFo
  10. DoFs
  11. Doftana

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