snooper en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/
Etymology
From snoop + -er.
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| snoopers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
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)