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• sleuth — [slu:θ] n old fashioned [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: sleuthhound dog used for tracking people (14 20 centuries), from sleuth track (12 15 centuries) (from Old Norse sloth) + hound] someone who tries to find out information about a crime = ↑detective …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sleuth´er — sleuth «slooth», noun, verb. –n. 1. Informal. a detective. 2. = bloodhound. (Cf. ↑bloodhound) –v.i. Informal. to be or act like a detective. ╂[< Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic slōth) a trail] –sleuth´er, noun …   Useful english dictionary

• sleuth — informal ► NOUN ▪ a detective. ► VERB ▪ carry out a search or investigation in the manner of a detective. ORIGIN originally in the sense «track»: from Old Norse …   English terms dictionary

• Sleuth (2007 film) — Infobox Film name = Sleuth caption = Promotional film poster director = Kenneth Branagh producer = Kenneth Branagh Simon Halfon Jude Law Simon Moseley Marion Pilowsky Tom Sternberg Ben Jackson co producer writer = Harold Pinter (screenwriter)… …   Wikipedia

• sleuth — [12] Sleuth originally meant ‘track, trail’ (‘John of Lorn perceived the hound had lost the sleuth’, John Barbour, The Bruce 1375). It was borrowed from Old Norse slóth ‘track, trail’, which was probably also the ultimate source of English slot… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• sleuth — [12] Sleuth originally meant ‘track, trail’ (‘John of Lorn perceived the hound had lost the sleuth’, John Barbour, The Bruce 1375). It was borrowed from Old Norse slóth ‘track, trail’, which was probably also the ultimate source of English slot… …   Word origins