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snooper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From snoop + -er.

Meanings

  1. A person who snoops.
    • Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 87:
    • Apps like WhatsApp currently prevent any snoopers from reading your messages using end-to-end encryption, jumbling it up in such a way that only the recipient can de-jumble it. 2017 July 14, Timothy Revell, “Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM”, in New Scientist:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
snoopers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

snooperscope

Translations (5)

ca dotor (one who snoops) · fr fouineur (one who snoops) · pl szpicel (one who snoops) · es fisgón (one who snoops) · it ficcanaso (one who snoops)