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sleuth
UK /sluːθ/ US /sluːθ/
noun 5verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
A detective.
1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
“This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
2
A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
3
An animal’s trail or track.
verb
1
To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
noun
1
Slowness; laziness, sloth.
2
A group of bears.
As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…
If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
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