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muftee

muftee is the archaic spelling of mufti.

Meaning of mufti

Noun

mufti (countable and uncountable, plural muftis)

  1. (countable) A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
    • Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be...2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, uncountable) A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military or the police, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.
    • He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91
    Synonyms:
    civvies

Forms of muftee

pluralmuftees

Questions about muftee

What is muftee the archaic spelling of?
Muftee is the archaic spelling of mufti.

Words near muftee in the dictionary

  1. Muffy
  2. MUFI
  3. muflon
  4. muflons
  5. MUFs
  6. muftee
  7. muftees
  8. mufti
  9. mufti day
  10. mufti days
  11. muftiate

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