scufter
scufter noun: a policeman.
Noun
scufter (plural scufters)
- A policeman.
- Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent.1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, page 56
Verb
scufter (third-person singular simple present scufters, present participle scuftering, simple past and past participle scuftered)
- To bustle, to hurry.
- Scarcely had the boy undressed himself and lain down on his pillow, ere his two brothers, having heard tidings of the fight, came scuftering in hot haste into the room in their night dresses, all aglow with curiosity[…]1874, George Coward (of Carlisle), The songs and ballads of Cumberland, to which are added dialect and other poems, with notes, ed. by Sidney Gilpin, page 116
- On working-days she went in a short linsey skirt with a loose print bedgown; an old straw hat would be tied over her ears by a rusty black ribbon, and about her waist would hang the packages committed to her charge. But in honour of the evenings celebration, to enjoy which she had spared her...1900, Emma Brooke, The Engrafted Rose: A Novel, page 100
Examples of scufter in a sentence
- Aw hev scuftered," said she, glancing at the two women with a pair of keen black eyes set in a frame of tiny puckers.1900, Emma Brooke, The Engrafted Rose: A Novel, page 100:
- […] scuftered off an' lowpt t'dyke afooar Ah cud brittle him wid me gibby-stick.1963, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman: A Quarterly Review and Miscellany, page 182:
Forms of scufter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scufters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scufters |
| present participle | scuftering |
| past participle | scuftered |
| past | scuftered |
Questions about scufter
- What does scufter mean?
- Scufter means a policeman.
- How do you use scufter in a sentence?
- Aw hev scuftered," said she, glancing at the two women with a pair of keen black eyes set in a frame of tiny puckers.
- What part of speech is scufter?
- Scufter can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of scufter?
- The plural of scufter is scufters.
Words near scufter in the dictionary
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