shufti

n. 一瞥, 掠影

发音

UK /ˈʃʊf.ti/
其它
US /ˈʃʊf.ti/
UK /ˈʃʌf.ti/
US /ˈʃʌf.ti/

词形变化

shuftis 复数 shuftis

别名

shuftie shufty shoofti

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A brief glance.

    英国 俚语

    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?'"

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

reconnaissance

相关短语

shufti kite shufti kites

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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