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单词 sleuth-hound
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sleuth-houndn.

/ˈsluːθhaʊnd/
Forms: Middle English sloith-, slewth-, sleuth-, Middle English–1500s sluth(e)-, 1600s slwth-hund; Middle English slwthound, 1500s sleuthound; 1600s slugh-, 1600s (1800s) sluth-, 1700s slothe-, slooth-, 1600s, 1800s– sleuth-hound (1800s sleugh-hound).
Etymology: < sleuth n.2 Originally northern and Scottish.
1. A species of bloodhound, formerly employed in Scotland for pursuing game or tracking fugitives. Now Historical or archaic.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > bloodhound > kinds of
sleuth-hound1483
slot-hound1537
sludden1570
slow-hound1591
Spartan dog1600
slough-dog1774
track-hound1888
1483 Cath. Angl. 345/2 A Sluthe hunde, sapifur, oderinsecus.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 40 The sleuth-hund [1489 Adv. slouth-hund] maid stynting thar.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 484 A sleuthhund had he thar.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 135 Thair sloith hund the graith gait till him ȝeid.
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cij He that denyis entres to the sleuthound..salbe haldin participant with the cryme and thift committit.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 7 Throuch thir woddis the gretter parte of the nobilitie hes thair maist recreatione in hunting with the sluthe-hundes.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 149 The second kind is called in Scotland a Sluth-hound.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 18 Tracing them..by their footing..as quick senting Slugh-hounds doe lead them.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 29 The Blood-hound differeth nothing in quality from the Scotish Sluth-hound.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 7 They were called Slough or Slothe hounds, from their following the slot or track of men or cattle.
1828 W. Scott Tales of Grandfather 1st Ser. I. vi. 127 These bloodhounds, or sleuth-hounds,..were used for the purpose of pursuing great criminals.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xi. 259 These persons Moore hunted like any sleuth-hound.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird iii If I were a criminal, I would as soon have a sleuthhound on my track as Joseph Distin.
attributive.1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 123 The remarkable feature of Mr. Carlyle's criticism..is the sleuth-hound instinct with which he presses on to the matter of his theme.
2. transferred. A keen investigator or pursuer; a tracker; U.S. a detective.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > a pursuer or detective
thief-taker1535
beagle1559
thief-catcher1732
bloodhound1818
sleuth-hound1856
Richard1914
prodnose1965
society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > detective
plant1812
plain clothes1822
detective1850
plainclothesman1856
mouser1863
D.1869
sleuth1872
tec1879
dee1882
demon1889
sleuth-hound1890
split1891
fink1903
hawkshaw1903
busy1904
dick1905
gumshoe1913
Richard1914
shamus1925
cozzer1950
Five-O1983
1849 A. B. Reach Clement Lorimer xiii. 130 There is an awful mystery which the sleuth hounds of the law may trace—a mystery of suspicion, perhaps a mystery of crime.]
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 316 Cromwell..had his sleuth-hounds abroad, whose scent was not easily baffled.
1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë I. ii. 12 The West Riding men are sleuth-hounds in pursuit of money.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 209 The inspector and I followed..our sable sleuth-hounds.
1902 P. G. Wodehouse Pothunters iv. 66 Jim's respect for the abilities of our national sleuth-hounds was greater than Tony's, and a good deal greater than that of most people.
1929 Bookman Nov. 264/1 ‘What is it, Fra Diavolo?’ he asked... ‘A peeler, fellow, a sleuth-hound.’
1948 Amer. Speech 23 306/2 The hunt for it would be engrossing to a literary sleuth-hound.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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