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snooping around

snooping around is the present participle and gerund of snoop around.

Meaning of snoop around

Verb

snoop around (third-person singular simple present snoops around, present participle snooping around, simple past and past participle snooped around)

  1. To snoop.
    • She's been snooping around asking questions.

Questions about snooping around

What is snooping around the present participle and gerund of?
Snooping around is the present participle and gerund of snoop around.

Words near snooping around in the dictionary

  1. snoopier
  2. snoopiest
  3. snoopily
  4. snoopiness
  5. snooping
  6. snooping around
  7. snoopingly
  8. snoopings
  9. snoopish
  10. snoopishness
  11. snoops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snooping around (page history and authors); snoop around (page history and authors). 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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