sleuthing

Detective work.

Noun

  1. Detective work.
    • “Wotcher, me old cock sparrow, how's the sleuthing business?” bellowed Sandy, pausing and balancing his saddle on one knee while he looped up the girth. - 1962, Dick Francis, chapter 19, in Dead Cert, published 2004,...
    • Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States. - 1980, Geo, volume 2, number 2, page 80:
    • You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates. - 2010, Robert Coover, Noir, New York:...

Forms

sleuthings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sleuth