shufti

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃʊf.ti/|/ˈʃʌf.ti/    美 /ˈʃʊf.ti/|/ˈʃʌf.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A brief glance. UK,slang
    — "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."

词形变化

shuftis plural shufty alternative shoofti alternative

词源

UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).
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