Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pull off the cap or head-dress of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of the coif or cap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To deprive of the
coif orcap .
Etymologies
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un- + coif
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Examples
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Get you now back and rest you, for I know you stand uneasily, and you shall not uncoif me. '
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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