sleuth

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /sluːθ/    美 /sluːθ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A detective.
    — 1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
  2. Slowness; laziness, sloth. obsolete,uncountable
  3. A sleuthhound; a bloodhound. archaic
  4. A group of bears. collective,rare
    — 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…
  5. An animal’s trail or track. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery. ambitransitive
    — We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!

词形变化

sleuths plural sleuths present,singular,third-person sleuthing participle,present sleuthed participle,past sleuthed past sleuths plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cybersleuth sleuth dog sleuthery sleuthhound sleuthlike sleuthwork sleuthy supersleuth websleuth
相关词
sloth

词源

词源 1
Clipping of sleuthhound.
词源 2
From Old English slǣwþ, corresponding to slow + -th.
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