shufti
noun/ˈʃʊf.ti/UK
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”).
Definitions
A brief glance.
- "Caucasus mountains," said the driver. "I think. Let's have a shufti at the map."
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shufti. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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