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To doff your hat is to take it off as a sign of respect — when you meet someone, when a funeral passes, when a flag goes by. The word feels old now. Most people just say take off your hat. You may still hear doff in stories, historical films, or in a slightly playful, polite way. It comes from a of do off (put off), from Late Middle English doffen. The matching word is don, from do on (put on): you don a hat and later you doff it. Though actually, doff was also used more widely for taking off clothes, not only hats; the hat-and-respect use is the one meet first.
脫帽致敬（把帽子拿下來表示尊敬；偏舊，現在多半直接說 take off）
組成From Late Middle English doffen, a contraction of do off. By surface analysis, do + off. Compare don (do + on).
同家族的字
- donthe opposite pairing: do + on, to put clothes on
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
doffverb/dɒf/
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businessclothingfashionTo remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).
- […] Calidore perceiuing, thought it beſt / To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke; / And doffing his bright armes, himſelfe addreſt / In ſhepheards vveed, and in his hand he tooke, / In ſtead of ſteelehead ſpeare, a ſhepheards hooke, […]
- Thou vveare a Lyons hide, doff it for ſhame, / And hang a Calues skin on thoſe recreant limbes.
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businessclothingfashionTo remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).
- The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.
- [H]is courtesy to show, / He doffed, to Marmion bending low, / His broidered cap and plume.
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dialectalTo undress (oneself); to divest, to strip.
- VVhy art thou troubled Herod? vvhat vaine feare / Thy blood-revolving Breſt to rage doth move? / Heavens King, vvho doffs himſelfe vveake fleſh to vveare, / Comes not to rule in vvrath, but ſerve in love.
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To cast aside or get rid of (something), to throw off.
- Doff that stupid idea: it will never work.
- […] Romeo doffe thy name, / And for thy name vvhich is no part of thee, / Take all my ſelfe.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesTo remove (a bobbin or spindle which is full of spun yarn) from a spinning frame for replacement with an empty one.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesTo remove (small pieces of cotton or other plant fibre, etc.) from a carding cylinder.
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obsoleteTo put off or turn away (someone) with an excuse, etc.
- Euery day, thou dofftſt me, vvith ſome deuiſe Iago; / And rather, as it ſeemes to me, thou keepeſt from me, / All conueniency, then ſupplieſt me, vvith the leaſt / Aduantage of hope: […]
- VVhen to one Goat, they reach that prickly vveed, / VVhich maketh all the reſt forbeare to feed; / Or ſtrevv Tods haires, or vvith their tailes do ſvveepe / The devvy graſſe, to d'off the ſimpler ſheepe; […]
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archaicrareTo remove or tip a hat or other headwear in greeting or salutation, or as a mark of respect.
- And [the goose] feeding high, and living soft, / Grew plump and able-bodied; / Until the grave churchwarden doff'd, / The parson smirk'd and nodded.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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obsoleterareFollowed by with: to remove or take off something worn on the body, or something carried.
- VVhy, look'ye, Major Sturgeon, I don't much care for your poppers and ſharpes, becauſe vvhy, they are out of my vvay; but if you vvill doff vvith your boots, and box a couple of bouts.
doffnoun/dɒf/
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obsoleterareFollowed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.
- Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。