(v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.
(v. t.) To daunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) This bomb hit Daff al-Shouk square, where families were celebrating Eid, on the southern outskirts of the capital.
Doff
Definition:
(v. t.) To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of.
(v. t.) To strip; to divest; to undress.
(v. i.) To put off dress; to take off the hat.
Example Sentences:
(1) British consumers, whose bills will be halved, will doff their caps to Tory ministers who made possible this revolution of cheap energy.
(2) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(3) In movie terms, this is the equivalent of the nerdy librarian who doffs her glasses and shakes out her hair, at which someone must yell, "Why, Miss Jones, you are magnificent!"
(4) Macartney offered to doff his hat, go down on one knee and even kiss the emperor's hand, but declined to kowtow unless a Chinese official agreed to kneel before a portrait of George III.
(5) The available transducers are cosmetically acceptable and are easy to don and doff.
(6) The music nods at Gregorian chant, doffs its cap to Shostakovich , gives a thumbs up to industrial metal, and is uniquely Scott Walker.
(7) Severe restriction of shoulder and trunk mobility made it impossible for these patients to don and doff their prostheses using the traditional figure-of-eight harness.
(8) If so, we must doff our hats to the Britannia of idiocy, and observe that she should really be on coins – the unapologetic face of some apocalypse-baiting modern currency.
(9) Marc Ostwald of Monument Securities 1) One has to always doff one's hat to Draghi for his ability to "blag a blagger", in rather stark (sic) contrast to his predecessors, and the conservative Bundesbank type grouping on the council.
(10) He clearly has a charisma; he laughs a lot and smiles a lot and he has a thing on top of his cap so he can easily doff it."
(11) Having castigated NHS England, we should doff our caps to its new boss, Simon Stevens, for a masterful report that, with a fair wind and a big slice of good fortune, could secure a long-term future for the health service.
(12) While everyone else is falling over to congratulate Jenny Jones, we doff our caps to Antti Koskinen, coach of the Finnish mens snowboard team.
(13) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
(14) But those fears have escalated since a summer row between chief executive Mark Carne and an unsuspecting Patrick McLoughlin, transport secretary, over an additional £1.5bn needed for electrification projects, which has resulted, one source claims, in "armies of civil servants crawling over the budget" even before the track operator officially doffs its cap to McLoughlin.
(15) He's broken more records than an angry DJ and has been a superstar for nearly half his life, and this touching tribute focuses on the respect he's been accorded by colleagues, opponents and fans who doff their caps to him when he walks out to bat.