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shufti; shuftie; shufty; shoofti
noun
a quick look UK, 1943
Military adoption of Arabic sufti (did you see?).- If we’re going to have a shufti at those concert party women we’d better be on our way over. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 83, 1959
- “There might be people in there who I don’t want to see.” “Then have a little shufti[.]” — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 108, 1984
- So she [Queen Elizabeth I] sent off her boys, Walter Raleigh–who invented the bicycle and brought back the first duty-free fags–and Charlie Drake, to have a bit of a shoofti. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 12, 1994
- “I’ll nip into town for a shufti,” I said as I grabbed my sunglasses[.] — Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking, p. 267, 2000
- Asks if he can have a shuftie in the boot. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 50, 2001
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