snilch

Verb

snilch (third-person singular simple present snilches, present participle snilching, simple past and past participle snilched)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively.
   • “[…] I got a hankering to see it meself, and when I found I had a little time before dinner, I piked downstairs and had a peery. And it was the lummiest place, sir—I never seen nothing like it. I was so took up with looking at everything, I forgot about dinner, till I snilched the clock and saw how...1994, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, →ISBN, page 122
   • “There're whispers,” he said, his voice dropping. “Someone's snilching Nicco.” I stopped, the orange midway to my mouth, which had suddenly gone dry.
     “Snilching?” I said. That wasn't good. No one liked spies, but Nicco was pathological about them.2011, Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves: A Tale of the Kin, Penguin, →ISBN