1. Adj: To be witty, clever and charming and generally over 50 years of age. Tweed jackets or sandals are a must. Bad jokes are an optional extra
2. Noun: Joft, To have joft suggests you possess the above attributes.
1. Lars: "Hey did you goto that non-linearity lecture this morning? I'm so pissed about missing it"
Gary: "Yea Professor Horton is so fucking jofty ima pass the course so easy".
2. Employer: "I'm sorry Mr. Jones you're not quite who we're looking for, we need somebody with a little more joft".
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand