SLEUTH

sleuth, sleuthhound

(noun) a detective who follows a trail

spy, stag, snoop, sleuth

(verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

sleuth (plural sleuths)

A detective.

(archaic) A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.

(obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.

Synonyms

• (detective): detective, gumshoe, dick, private eye

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• shadow

Etymology 2

Noun

sleuth (plural sleuths)

(obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.

(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Synonyms

• (sloth): idleness, inertia, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothfulness

• (collective term for a group of bears): sloth

Anagrams

• Hulets, Lesuth, Lueths, hustle

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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