Take a shufti while you're out there. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Can you have a quick shufti round, see the doors are locked, and bring the staff?. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
One shufti at the Hewitt person would convince the prospective leaper that things weren't as bad as was thought. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Some sort with a face like a tiger but great big Bristols was running it so I thought I'd go and have a shufti, and I drew a rose. From Wordnik.com. [Maura's Game]
In other words, do you think if she was sort of shufti (ph), verging on senior citizen, that he would have picked her, given her credentials?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2008] Reference
With his terrible low hairy brow, his glistening nostrils, his blubber tips and stooped gait, one shufti at him would have saved Charles Darwin ten years of intensive research. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
Well, the boffins reckon it's related to the "rubbernecking" concept - the process whereby you try and drive by an accident without having a shufti but "our emotions of concern, fear and curiosity cause us to stare out the window at the accident and slow to a crawl as we drive by". From Wordnik.com. ["Porn makes you bind" - distractions distract...] Reference
She gave me the URL, so that I could have a shufti. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Not to far from the Burmese border if you fancy nipping over for shufti. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Yet as in Blighty, so in France: a quick shufti of the article reveals that le Populaire has been unable to locate a single Brit who has actually sold up and gone home as a result of la Crise. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
McLoughlin first fell under the "spell of far Arabia" when he noticed his father using exotic words such as "bint," "shufti" and "yallah" - brought home from Egypt and the western desert in the second world war. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Joyful stuff which is well worth a shufti. From Wordnik.com. [Mr Eugenides] Reference
Let's have a shufti at lofty aims and objectives. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
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