Definition of Shufti

1. Noun. A quick look around (originally military slang). "Take a shufti while you're out there"


Definition of Shufti

1. Noun. A brief glance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shufti

1. a look [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shufti

shuffle off this mortal coil
shuffle steer
shuffleboard
shuffleboards
shuffled
shuffler
shufflers
shuffles
shufflewing
shufflewings
shufflingly
shufflings
shuffly
shufti (current term)
shufties
shuftis
shufty
shugged
shugging
shuggle
shugs
shuiskite
shuka
shukas
shukun-sho
shul
shule
shuled

Literary usage of Shufti

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by David Francis Condie (1868)
"... to the frequency of inflammatory disease of the shufti of the long bones. A disease, unfortunately, of very frequent occurrence in early life. ..."

2. The Spoken Arabic of Egypt: Grammar, Exercises, Vocabularies by John Selden Willmore (1905)
"... is addressed will often repeat the principal word of the interrogative sentence (usually a verb) in an affirmative or a negative^ form, as shufti ..."

3. Vocabulary and Hand-book of the Chinese Language . . . Romanized in the by Justus Doolittle (1872)
"Droop, Fg #f tu olió, :JC wei; in strength, АЛА 'chi li shufti; «9 a fl-wer, "jfc fö fang 'hua. Drop of wa'er, — Ш ;j< i ti shui; ti pu yuan; «н ear- JÇ. fg ..."

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