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shufti.

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noun/ˈʃʊf.ti/UK, US/ˈʃʌf.ti/UK, US
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    UK · slang
Where this word comes from

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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