sleuthhound

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Etymology

From Middle English , from Old Norse slóð (“track”) +‎ hound.

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Noun

sleuthhound (plural sleuthhounds)

  1. A working dog who tracks or pursues e.g. a wanted criminal; a bloodhound formerly used in Scotland.
    • 1894, S. R. Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet:
      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. (informal) A detective; a sleuth.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part II , page 310:
      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.
    • 1922, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 6, in The Man Who Knew Too Much:
      Of course, that may be an accident and couldn't possibly be called a case against anybody; but then we haven't the means to make a real case against anybody. Till the police come we are only a pack of very amateur sleuthhounds.

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