mufty

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