snooper

English

Etymology

From snoop +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Noun

snooper (plural snoopers)

1. A person who snoops.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 87:

     Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.

   • 2017 July 14, Timothy Revell, “Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM”, in New Scientist‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

one who snoops

• Catalan: dotor (ca)
• French: fouineur (fr) m
• Italian: ficcanaso (it) m
• Spanish: fisgón (es) m

Anagrams

• Spooner, neopros, operons, spooner