sleuth

Anglais

(Nom 1, verbe) Du vieux norrois slóð.

(Nom 2) Du vieil anglais slǣwþ.

Singulier	Pluriel
sleuth \sljuːθしーた\	sleuths \sljuːθしーたs\

sleuth

(Désuet) Piste d'animal.
(Archaïsme) Limier.
Détective.
- Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy? — (Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville, 1908)
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sleuth \sljuːθしーた\ transitif intransitif

Faire le détective.
- We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact! — (Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary, 1922)
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Singulier	Pluriel
sleuth \sljuːθしーた\	sleuths \sljuːθしーたs\

sleuth

(Désuet) Lenteur, paresse, sloth.
(Rare) (Zoologie) Groupe d'ours.
- 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... — (Noel Perrin, A Passport Secretly Green, 1961, page 89)
- If these dainty adventurers weren't being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves. — (Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, 1995, page 13)
- From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk. — (Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, 2007, page 200)