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sleuth dogs

sleuth dogs is the plural of sleuth dog.

Meaning of sleuth dog

Noun

sleuth dog (plural sleuth dogs)

  1. (informal) 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

Questions about sleuth dogs

What is sleuth dogs the plural of?
Sleuth dogs is the plural of sleuth dog.

Words near sleuth dogs in the dictionary

  1. Slessor
  2. Sletten
  3. Slettens
  4. sleuth
  5. sleuth dog
  6. sleuth dogs
  7. sleuth-dog
  8. sleuth-dogs
  9. sleuth-hound
  10. sleuth-hounds
  11. sleuthed

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