{"id":16363,"date":"2006-01-24T19:55:59","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T03:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/01\/24\/shufti.html"},"modified":"2006-01-24T19:55:59","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T03:55:59","slug":"shufti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/01\/24\/shufti\/","title":{"rendered":"shufti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A \"shufti\" is apparently a look at something, or a look around, as in \"let's have a quick shufti at the specs\" (from the <cite>Register<\/cite>, which uses the term regularly).<\/p>\n<p>Michael Quinion's excellent World Wide Words site gives the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-shu1.htm\">etymology of \"shufti\"<\/a>; it comes from the Arabic, and apparently entered wide English use among the RAF in the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;shufti&#8221; is apparently a look at something, or a look around, as in &#8220;let&#8217;s have a quick shufti at the specs&#8221; (from the Register, which uses the term regularly)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}