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.

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