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Glimpse vs Shufti - What's the difference?

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Shufti is a synonym of glimpse.



As nouns the difference between glimpse and shufti

is that glimpse is a brief look, glance, or peek while shufti is a brief glance.

As a verb glimpse

is to see or view briefly or incompletely.

glimpse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief look, glance, or peek.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *:Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
  • *
  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • A sudden flash.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
  • A faint idea; an inkling.

    • Verb

    (glimps)
  • To see or view briefly or incompletely.
    • I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
  • To appear by glimpses.
    • (Drayton)

    Synonyms

    * perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of

    shufti

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shufty * shoofti

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief glance.
  • * 1961 , Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War)
    • "Perkins, we are asking you to be that one man. I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti , don't come back. Goodbye, Perkins. God, I wish I was going too."
  • * 1992 , Tom Holt, Tall Stories , Orbit (2004), page 276,
    • "Caucasus mountains," said the driver. "I think. Let's have a shufti at the map."
  • * 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

    * (brief glance) glance, glimpse, peep, peek