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Étymologie

(Nom 1, verbe) Du vieux norrois slóð.
(Nom 2) Du vieil anglais slǣwþ.

Nom commun 1

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sleuth

  1. (Désuet) Piste d'animal.
  2. (Archaïsme) Limier.
  3. Détective.
    • Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy? — (Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville, 1908)
      La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

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Verbe

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sleuth \sljuːθ\ transitif intransitif

  1. Faire le détective.
    • We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact! — (Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary, 1922)
      La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

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Nom commun 2

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sleuth

  1. (Désuet) Lenteur, paresse, sloth.
  2. (Rare) (Zoologie) Groupe d'ours.
    • As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage... — (Noel Perrin, A Passport Secretly Green, 1961, page 89)
    • If these dainty adventurers weren't being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves. — (Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, 1995, page 13)
    • From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk. — (Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, 2007, page 200)

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