sleuthhound

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A detective; a sleuth. informal
    — 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.

词形变化

sleuthhounds plural sleuth-hound alternative slot-hound alternative slothound alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
sleuth

词源

From Middle English sluth hunde (and earlier as slodogge), from Old Norse slóð (“track”) + hound.
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