Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - snoop
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Snoop
snoop
(snoops, snooping, snooped) 1. If someone snoops around a place, they secretly look around it in order to find out things. Ricardo was the one she’d seen snooping around Kim’s hotel room. VERB: V adv/prep • Snoop is also a noun. The second house that Grossman had a snoop around contained ‘strong simple furniture’. N-COUNT • snooper (snoopers) St Barth’s strange lack of street names is meant to dissuade journalistic snoopers. N-COUNT 2. If someone snoops on a person, they watch them secretly in order to find out things about their life. Governments have been known to snoop on innocent citizens. VERB: V on n
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I. intransitive verb Etymology: Dutch snoepen to buy or eat on the sly; akin to Dutch snappen to snap Date: 1832 to look or pry especially in a sneaking or meddlesome manner • ~er noun II. noun Date: circa 1890 one that ~s ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. colloq. --v.intr. 1 pry into matters one need not be concerned with. 2 (often foll. by about, around) investigate in order to find out transgressions of the law etc. --n. 1 an act of snooping. 2 a person who snoops; a detective. Derivatives snooper n. snoopy adj. Etymology: Du. snoepen eat on the sly ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. разг. человек, сующий нос не в свои дела 2. разг. ищейка (о сыщике, шпионе, репортере и т. п.) 3. разг. самолет-шпион 4. разг. совать нос в чужие дела; подглядывать, подсматривать 5. разг. шпионить, выслеживать (также snoop around) to snoop for information —- собирать (разведывательную) информацию 6. разг. прикарманивать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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coll. 1. noun человек, вечно сующий нос в чужие дела 2. v. 1) совать нос в чужие дела 2) шпионить, выслеживать (тж. snoop around); Theres a man been snooping around outside, shall I call the police? Syn: see overhear ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ v to try to find out about someone's private affairs by secretly looking in their house, examining their possessions etc + around/abou (I caught him snooping around in my office.) - snoop n - snooper n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1832, Amer.Eng., "to appropriate," probably from Du. snoepen "to pry," also "eat in secret, eat sweets, sneak," probably related to snappen "to bite, snatch" (see snap). Meaning "to go around in a prying manner" is from 1864. Snoopy (adj.) first recorded 1895. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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