SNOOP
What does "SNOOP" mean?
To investigate or look around secretly, especially into others' private affairs.
Meanings
- To pry into things that are not one's business, especially secretly. She caught him snooping through her emails.
- A person who snoops; an act of snooping. Have a quick snoop around the attic while we're up here. informal
Did you know?
- To snoop once meant to sneak sweets: the word comes from Dutch 'snoepen', 'to eat treats on the sly', before it came to mean prying into other people's business.
Word origin
From Dutch 'snoepen', meaning to eat sweets or food on the sly; the secretive eating sense broadened in 19th-century American English into prying or sneaking about.
Remember it
SNOOP has two wide 'o' eyes in the middle — peering where they don't belong.
A little poem
A drawer left ajar-
the hand that opens it learns
what it can't unknow.
haiku
Wordplay
- The detective ate biscuits while reading my mail. Turns out 'snoop' has always meant both.
What it teaches
Curiosity that hides itself isn't curiosity anymore; it's the first cost of trust.
Quick facts
What does SNOOP mean?
To investigate or look around secretly, especially into others' private affairs.
Is SNOOP a valid word?
Yes — SNOOP is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SNOOP?
SNOOP has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SNOOP come from?
From Dutch 'snoepen', meaning to eat sweets or food on the sly; the secretive eating sense broadened in 19th-century American English into prying or sneaking about.
What can SNOOP teach us?
Curiosity that hides itself isn't curiosity anymore; it's the first cost of trust.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.