shufti

English

WOTD – 5 June 2009

Alternative forms

shufty
shoofti

Etymology

UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِي‎ (šufti, “have you seen?”), from شَاف‎ (šāf, “to see”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʊf.ti/, /ˈʃʌf.ti/

Noun

shufti (plural shuftis)

(Britain, informal) A brief glance.
- 1961, Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War)
  "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."
- 1992, Tom Holt, Tall Stories, Orbit (2004), page 276,
  "Caucasus mountains," said the driver. "I think. Let's have a shufti at the map."
- 2005, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Raincoast Books ; Bloomsbury, page 431,
  "When we come face to face with [a ghost] down a dark alley we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?'"

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:glance

Translations

glance — see glance

单词	shufti
释义	shufti English WOTD – 5 June 2009 Alternative forms shufty shoofti Etymology UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِي‎ (šufti, “have you seen?”), from شَاف‎ (šāf, “to see”). Pronunciation (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃʊf.ti/, /ˈʃʌf.ti/ Noun shufti (plural shuftis) (Britain, informal) A brief glance. 1961, Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War) "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." 1992, Tom Holt, Tall Stories, Orbit (2004), page 276, "Caucasus mountains," said the driver. "I think. Let's have a shufti at the map." 2005, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Raincoast Books ; Bloomsbury, page 431, "When we come face to face with [a ghost] down a dark alley we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?'" Synonyms See Thesaurus:glance Translations glance — see glance
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