sleuth-dog
sleuth-dog is the alternative form of sleuth dog.
Meaning of sleuth dog
Noun
sleuth dog (plural sleuth dogs)
- Synonym of sleuthhound (“a detective; a sleuth”).
- "No force must be used upon him. Within what time wilt thou find him out?" / "Within thirty hours, so he have not crossed the Lothian firth–If it is to do you a pleasure, I will set off directly, and wind him as a sleuth-dog tracks the moss-trooper,” answered Christie.1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John...
- Synonyms:
- sleuthhound
Forms of sleuth-dog
| plural | sleuth-dogs |
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Questions about sleuth-dog
- What is sleuth-dog the alternative form of?
- Sleuth-dog is the alternative form of sleuth dog.
Words near sleuth-dog in the dictionary
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