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”).

  1. derived from شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي — “have you seen?

Definitions

  1. 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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