Sleuth

Definition: Sleuth

Sleuth

Noun

1. A detective who follows a trail.

Verb

1. Watch, observe, or inquire secretly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sleuth" was first used: sometime around 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Sleuth

Information

Informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy, newsmonger; messenger; amicus curiae.

Crosswords: Sleuth

Sleuth But Sure (1956)

The Awful Sleuth (1951)

Camera Sleuth (1951)

Campus Sleuth (1948)

Slick Sleuth (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Einstein Anderson: Science Sleuth (Einstein Anderson, No 1) (reference)

• Safari Sleuth (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Tv-3) (reference)

• The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sleuth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sleuth": sleuth hound. Additional references.

Beginning with "sleuth": sleuth-like.

Ending with "sleuth": literary-sleuth, super-sleuth.

Albanian

qen policie (beagle, bloodhound, sleuthhound), detektiv (bloodhound, detective, Dick, gumshoe, plant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقب (burrow, burrowing, comb, delve, drilling, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, quest, rake, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize), ‏تصيد (fish, nose, pry), ‏عمل كبوليس سري, ‏جاسوس (courier, emissary, nark, nose, operative, spy, stool pigeon), ‏رجل المباحث (detective), ‏شرطي (bobby, bull, conditional, constable, cop, copper, gendarme, officer, pig, provisional, provisory, subjunctive), ‏بوليس سري (dick, emissary, shadow, snoop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

частен детектив (private eye, shamus), копой (bloodhound, ferreter, plant, tracker). (various references)

Chinese 

大猎犬. (various references)

Czech

detektiv (detective, Dick). (various references)

Farsi 

کاراگاه (Bloodhound, Eye, Informer), ردپای کسی راگرفتن (Shadow, Spoor). (various references)

Finnish

vihikoira (bloodhound), vihi (bloodhound). (various references)

French

limier (sleuthhound), fureter, fouiner, détective. (various references)

German

Spürhund (beagle, bird dog, sniffer dog, track hound, tracker, tracker dog). (various references)

Greek 

ντετέκτιβ (detective), μυστικόσ αστυνομικόσ, λαγωνικό αστυνομικόσ, ανιχνευτήσ (detector, scout, tracker). (various references)

Hebrew 

כלב �'שוש (bloodhound). (various references)

Hungarian

kopó (deerhound, foxhound, hound, ranger, sleuth-hound, tail), detektív (busy, detective, flatfoot, gumshoe, gum-shoe, spotter, tail), véreb (bloodhound, sleuth hound, sleuth-hound), rendőr (constable, flatfoot, police constable, policeman, policemen). (various references)

Italian

bloodhound (sleuthhound). (various references)

Korean 

자국. (various references)

Manx

lurgeyr (imitator, prospector, sleuth-hound). (various references)

Pig Latin

euthslay.(various references)

Portuguese

sabujo (myrmidon, plainclothes man, sleuthhound), cão de caça (bloodhound, plainclothes man, ranger, sleuthhound, tracker, woodward), beleguim (catchpoll, detective, serjeant-at-arms). (various references)

Russian 

сыщик (bloodhound, detective, ferret, nark, plain-clothes man, plainclothesman, plant, snoop, trap), собака-ищейка (lurcher), ищейка (bandog, beagle, bloodhound, snooper, talbot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

detektiv (detective, dick). (various references)

Spanish

sabueso (bandog, beagle, bloodhound, hound, sleuthhound). (various references)

Swedish

detektiv (detective, Dick, plain clothes, plain-clothes). (various references)

Thai

นักสืบ (spy), สุนัข�"มกลิ่น, ตามแกะรอย. (various references)

Turkish

takip etmek (chase, come after, dog, follow, follow in smb.'s wake, follow up, give chase, hound, keep tabs on, prosecute, pursue, track), polis köpeği (police dog, sleuthhound), iz sürmek (hound, scent, scent out, spoor), hafiye (detective, ferret, snoop, split, spy), detektiflik yapmak, detektif (detective). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти по сліду (pug, spoor), шукач (bloodhound, finder, sweeper), вистежувати (dog, nose, nose after, snoop, spoor, spy, spy out, trail), займатися розшуком, детектив (detective, nark). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trinh thám. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sleuth": sleuthed, sleuthhound, sleuthhounds, sleuthing, sleuths. (additional references)

Words ending with "sleuth": supersleuth. (additional references)

Words containing "sleuth": supersleuths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sleuth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sheueth, Sieburth, slaut, Sleath, sleauth, sleugh, sleut, sleuthe, slith, slouth, slueth, sluth, slyth, speath, Zulueta. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hustle.

-1 letter: lutes, shute, tules.

-2 letters: eths, hest, hets, hues, huts, lest, lets, lues, lush, lust, lute, shul, shut, slue, suet, tels, thus, tule, tush.

-3 letters: els, eth, hes, het, hue, hut, let, leu, sel, set, she, sue, tel, the, use, uts.

-4 letters: eh, el, es, et, he, sh, uh, us, ut.

+1 letter: hurtles, hustled, hustler, hustles, lushest, shuttle, sleuths.

+2 letters: chestful, clutches, cultches, flushest, hasteful, hulkiest, humblest, hurtless, hustlers, lecythus, lekythus, lutherns, luthiers, nutshell, plushest, ruthless, selcouth, shuttled, shuttles, sleuthed, sulphate, sulphite.

+3 letters: blueshift, chestfuls, flashtube, halituses, haulmiest, haustella, hazelnuts, laughters, nutshells, outhustle, plushiest, shouldest, slaughter, sleuthing, slushiest, southerly, stenchful, sublethal, sulphated, sulphates, sulphites, thalluses, thesaural, thuribles, tollhouse, toolhouse, trauchles, unclothes, unholiest, unlatches, upholster.