sleuth

(Nom 1, verbe) Du vieux norrois slóð.

(Nom 2) De l'anglo-saxon slǣwþ.

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)

• detective (3)

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)

• shadow

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)

(1)

• idleness
• inertia
• laziness
• lethargy
• sloth
• slothfulness

(2)

• sloth

• hustle

• Cet article utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC-BY-SA-3.0 : sleuth.