What does scufter mean?
Scufter means (UK, North Country, dated, slang) A policeman..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(UK, North Country, dated, slang) A policeman..
Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent.
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[…]
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 willing with the rest, she had clothed herself in garments which had been her "best things" when a girl. "Eh! Aw hev scuftered," said she, glancing at the two women with a pair of keen black eyes set in a frame of tiny puckers. "Titter oop t' sprunt sud ower a bit. Aw'm a' of a swelter wi' runnin'." "Yon's no cloak o' thine, Susannah[…]"
[…] scuftered off an' lowpt t'dyke afooar Ah cud brittle him wid me gibby-stick.
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Scufter means (UK, North Country, dated, slang) A policeman..
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Nothing like being dead for putting the scufters off the scent.
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