A word of Arabic origin meaning "look!" Was brought back to Britain after theSecond World War by returning soldiers who had learnt the word from Arab peddlars of dirty postcards. The peddlars used to keep the postcards hidden inside their coats and would show them to soldiers saying "Shufti, shufti!" - "Look, look!"
"I'm low down and I'm shifty!
'And if you hear a man that sounds like me smack him
and ask him where the fuck did he get his damn raps from..'" - Eminem low down and shifty