detectiving

text: Basically, Donna was an orphan (and still is -- the retcon of her Paradise Island/Wonder Woman origins does not affect her past before the fire) and she had Dick Grayson (Nightwing) perform some detectiving to find her true parents.

ref: 1991 March 5, Kevin J. Chen, “Troia transition”, in rec.arts.comics (Usenet):

type: quotation

text: Angered, Anonymous went into it's^([sic]) usual methods of punishing those who would stop the lulz. A two pronged attack of internet detectiving and full disclosure of DOX, and flooding their sites with requests to the point of unusability.

ref: 2008 February 9, anonymous author, “scifag to anonfags: don't do this "for Lisa"”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

text: Lee County deserves a sheriff who acts for all, not the few, and is not interested in winning votes by violating civil rights. With your background in JFK and Hendrix detectiving, I think you would have a good chance.

ref: 2022 September 4, Greg Parker, “Robbie Robertson Hosts Vince Palamara”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):

links:
Detective work
detective work#English

links: investigation investigation

raw_glosses: (informal) Detective work; investigation.

pos: noun

en-noun

expansion: detectiving (uncountable)

etymology_text: From detective + -ing.

suffix

en

detective

ing<id:gerund noun>

expansion: detective + -ing


detectiving

links: detective detective#English

glosses: present participle and gerund of detective

pos: verb

head

verb form

expansion: detectiving

etymology_text: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.