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Shufti

//ˈʃʊf.ti// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A brief glance. UK, slang

    ""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.""

  2. 2
    a quick look around (originally military slang) wordnet

Etymology

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

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