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What Word For "a Quick Look" Came From 1940S Military Slang?

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shufti ˈʃʊfti/ nounBritishinformal noun: shufti; plural noun: shuftis a look or reconnoitre, especially a quick one. "I'll take a shufti round the wood while I'm about it" Origin 1940s (originally military slang): from Arabic šāfa ‘try to see’.
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ˈʃʊfti/
nounBritishinformal
noun: shufti; plural noun: shuftis

a look or reconnoitre, especially a quick one.
"I'll take a shufti round the wood while I'm about it"

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1940s (originally military slang): from Arabic šāfa ‘try to see’.
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