snooper
/ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/
snooper noun: a person who snoops.
Noun
snooper (plural snoopers)
- 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
snooper meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
snooper in Tamil
- தகாவழித் தலையீட்டாளர்
snooper in Malayalam
- busybody, meddler, eavesdropper
- അനാവശ്യകാര്യങ്ങളിൽ തലയിടുന്നവൻ, കുതുകി, കുതൂഹലി, ജിജ്ഞാസു, അമിതജിജ്ഞാസു, ആരാന്റെ കാര്യത്തിൽ തലയിടുന്നവൻ
Forms of snooper
| plural | snoopers |
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Origin of snooper
From snoop + -er.
Words formed from snooper
Words that rhyme with snooper
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Questions about snooper
- What does snooper mean?
- Snooper means a person who snoops.
- What is snooper in Tamil?
- Snooper in Tamil is தகாவழித் தலையீட்டாளர். See Snooper meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is snooper?
- Snooper is a noun.
- How do you pronounce snooper?
- Snooper is pronounced /ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of snooper?
- The plural of snooper is snoopers.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: snooper (page history and authors); snooper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snooper (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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