Noun: snoop
| Singular | snoop |
| Plural | snoops |
Sample Sentences
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Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.
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She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.
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Garrison's snoops regularly stole Kirkwood's mail while he was in New Orleans—only a federal offense. [1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12:]
Nouns inflected like snoop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”) or maybe Old Norse snópa (“to idle about dismally”), or (“to use a blood found”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap. See: Old Norse Nouns '
snópa', Dutch Nouns '
snavel', German Nouns '
Schnabel'.