sleuthhound
Americannoun
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a bloodhound.
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a detective.
noun
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a dog trained to track people, esp a bloodhound
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an informal word for detective
Etymology
Origin of sleuthhound
1325–75; Middle English sloth track, trail (< Old Norse slōth ) + hound 1
Example Sentences
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President Conant was awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws by Oxford University with the citation: "a sleuthhound in pursuit of atoms, a champion of free inquiry and free speech."
From Time Magazine Archive
In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Ralph said doggedly, though a Scot, correct for once in his grammar; and he pursued a recalcitrant particle through the dictionary like a sleuthhound.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Enoch Standring had something of the sleuthhound in his nature.
From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph
This explains why the dog has sometimes been called a sleuthhound; that is, a dog set upon a sleuth, or trail.
From Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
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