scufter

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

scufter (plural scufters)

  1. (UK, North Country, dated, slang) A policeman.
    • 1947, Robert Briffault, New Life of Mr. Martin, page 56:
      Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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