Scufter

noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A policeman. UK, dated, slang

    "Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent."

Verb
  1. 1
    To bustle, to hurry. dialectal

    "Scarcely had the boy undressed himself and lain down on his pillow, ere his two brothers, having heard tidings of the fight, came scuftering in hot haste into the room in their night dresses, all aglow with curiosity[…]"

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cobblercopcopperfedjackjake

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"Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent."

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