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offcap

offcap verb: to take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.

Verb

offcap (third-person singular simple present offcaps, present participle offcapping, simple past and past participle offcapped)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.
    • Three Great-ones of the Cittie,
      (In perſonall ſuite to make me his Lieutenant)
      Off-capt to himc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Forms of offcap

third-person singular presentoffcaps
present participleoffcapping
past participleoffcapped
pastoffcapped
alternative formoff-cap

Origin of offcap

From off- + cap.

Questions about offcap

What does offcap mean?
Offcap means to take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.
What part of speech is offcap?
Offcap is a verb.
What is the past tense of offcap?
The past tense of offcap is offcapped.

Words near offcap in the dictionary

  1. offboarded
  2. offboarding
  3. offboards
  4. offbreak
  5. offbreaks
  6. offcap
  7. offcapped
  8. offcapping
  9. offcaps
  10. offcast
  11. offcasting

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