shufti

== English == === Alternative forms === shufty, shoofti === 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”). === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈʃʊf.ti/, /ˈʃʌf.ti/ Rhymes: -ʊfti, -ʌfti === Noun === shufti (plural shuftis) (UK, slang) A brief glance. 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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====