offcap

English

Alternative forms

• off-cap

Etymology

From off- +‎ cap.

Verb

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

1. (rare or obsolete) To take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.
   • c. 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Three Great-ones of the Cittie,
     (In perſonall ſuite to make me his Lieutenant)
     Off-capt to him

Anagrams

• cap off