do off

English

Alternative forms

• do of
• doff (current)

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).
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

     Than seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I requyre you, do of your helmys, that I may se you.’

   • 1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles:

     So she laughed, and did off her other raiment, and slid swiftly into the water, that embraced her body in all its fresh kindness […]

2. (slang) To kill, to bump off