snoop

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snoop, 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.

Derivative

snooper n. snoopy adj.

Etymology

Du. snoepen eat on the sly

THESAURUS

snoop

Paul Pry, Paul-Pry, Peeping Tom, audient, auditor, backseat driver, busybody, butt-in, buttinsky, eavesdropper, fool with, gossip, hearer, hearkener, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, interfere, intermeddle, intermeddler, intrude, intruder, kibitz, kibitzer, listener, meddle, meddle with, meddler, mess with, monkey with, mouse, nose, nose around, nosy Parker, overhearer, peek, peep, peeper, peer, poke, pragmatist, prier, private detective, private eye, private investigator, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, rubberneck, rubbernecker, scopophiliac, shamus, sightseer, snook, snooper, spy, stare, tamper with, voyeur, yenta