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shufti

/ˈʃʊf.ti/ UK, US
/ˈʃʌf.ti/ UK, US

Rhymes with -ʊfti, -ʌfti

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UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).

noun shuftis · shufty · shoofti

UK, slang A brief glance. "Perkins, we are asking you to be that one man. I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don't come back. Goodbye, Perkins. God, I wish I was going too."
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@misc{shufti_2026,
  title = {shufti},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shufti},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}