Slothfuln vs Sleuth - What's the difference?
slothfuln | sleuth |
Slothfuln has no English definition.
(obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.
(archaic) A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
A detective.
* 1908 , (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville
(transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.
* 1922 , , The Secret Adversary
(obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
* 1961 , , A Passport Secretly Green , p.89
* 1995 , , The Girl Sleuth , p.13
* 2007 , , The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , p.200
Slothfuln is likely misspelled.
Slothfuln has no English definition.
As a noun sleuth is
an animal’s trail or track.As a verb sleuth is
to act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.slothfuln
Not English
Slothfuln has no English definition. It may be misspelled.sleuth
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (Norwegian slo).Noun
(en noun)- Do ye want me to become a sleuth , or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
Synonyms
* (detective) detectiveVerb
(en verb)- We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
Synonyms
* shadowEtymology 2
From (etyl) , corresponding to (slow) + (-th).Noun
(en noun)- 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…
- If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
- 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.
