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sleuth-hound

sleuth-hound is the alternative form of sleuthhound.

Meaning of sleuthhound

Noun

sleuthhound (plural sleuthhounds)

  1. A working dog who tracks or pursues e.g. a wanted criminal; a bloodhound formerly used in Scotland.
    • Sometimes he pursued the wily burn trout with relentless ferocity and the silent intentness of a sleuthhound. Often, however, he would pause and with his finger indicate some favourite stone to Winsome.1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet
  2. (informal) A detective; a sleuth.
    • And straightway the minions of the law led forth from their donjon keep one whom the sleuthhounds of justice had apprehended in consequence of information received.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 310
    Synonyms:
    sleuth dog

Synonyms of sleuth-hound

Forms of sleuth-hound

pluralsleuth-hounds

Questions about sleuth-hound

What is sleuth-hound the alternative form of?
Sleuth-hound is the alternative form of sleuthhound.

Words near sleuth-hound in the dictionary

  1. sleuth
  2. sleuth dog
  3. sleuth dogs
  4. sleuth-dog
  5. sleuth-dogs
  6. sleuth-hound
  7. sleuth-hounds
  8. sleuthed
  9. sleuthery
  10. sleuthhound
  11. sleuthhounds

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