sleuth, sleuthhound
(noun) a detective who follows a trail
spy, stag, snoop, sleuth
(verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sleuth (plural sleuths)
A detective.
(archaic) A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
(obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.
• (detective): detective, gumshoe, dick, private eye
sleuth (third-person singular simple present sleuths, present participle sleuthing, simple past and past participle sleuthed)
(intransitive, transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
• shadow
sleuth (plural sleuths)
(obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
• (sloth): idleness, inertia, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothfulness
• (collective term for a group of bears): sloth
• Hulets, Lesuth, Lueths, hustle
Source: Wiktionary
Sleuth, n. Etym: [Icel. sloedh. See Slot a track.]
Definition: The track of man or beast as followed by the scent. [Scot.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 May 2025
(noun) the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
