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Shuftie vs Shufti - What's the difference?

shuftie | shufti |

As nouns the difference between shuftie and shufti

is that shuftie is an alternative spelling of shufti while shufti is a brief glance.

shuftie

English

Noun

(shufties)

    • 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