单词	snoop
释义	snoopsnoop /snuːp/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINsnoop Origin: 1800-1900 Dutch snoepen ‘to buy or eat secretly’ Verb Table VERB TABLE snoop Simple Form Present I, you, we, they snoop he, she, it snoops Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they snooped Present perfect I, you, we, they have snooped he, she, it has snooped Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had snooped Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will snoop Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have snooped Continuous Form Present I am snooping he, she, it is snooping you, we, they are snooping Past I, he, she, it was snooping you, we, they were snooping Present perfect I, you, we, they have been snooping he, she, it has been snooping Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been snooping Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be snooping Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been snooping Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Bob caught her snooping through the papers on his desk. Technology is making it easier to snoop on just about anybody. What are you doing snooping around in my room? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Every one of these nodes presents the opportunity for snooping. I have ideas and you snoop. In the early forties, predecessors of Joe McCarthy were snooping around trying to spot Communists in government. Internet e-mail is obviously far less secure than the postal system, where envelopes protect correspondence from casual snooping. Lil in any case has a breakfast meeting with those Fox Ghosts I saw snooping around Mephistco on my last trip back. Richard Nixon feared the moral consequences even as he ordered the snooping campaign that led to Watergate. That suited Fenn fine: he preferred to snoop alone. There was most definitely somebody snooping around. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto try to find out something private or personal► snoop to try to find out about someone's private affairs, especially by secretly looking in their house, examining their possessions etc: · Bob caught her snooping through the papers on his desk.snoop on: · Technology is making it easier to snoop on just about anybody.snoop around/about British: · What are you doing snooping around in my room? ► pry to try to find out about someone's private life by asking a lot of personal questions in a way that people find rude or annoying: · My son hasn't given us a reason for his divorce, and we don't want to pry.pry into: · Employers shouldn't try to pry into what a person does in the privacy of their own home. ► nose around /about British informal to look around a place, especially someone's home or office, to try to find out things that do not really concern you: · The kids were nosing around in the attic and found a box of old photos.nose around an office/room/house etc: · I got suspicious when I found him nosing around my office early one morning. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► around · There was most definitely somebody snooping around.· In the early forties, predecessors of Joe McCarthy were snooping around trying to spot Communists in government.· First Pollitt's lot, then Platt's, snooping around. to try to find out about someone’s private affairs by secretly looking in their house, examining their possessions etcsnoop around/about I caught him snooping around in my office.snoop on reporters snooping on celebrities—snoop noun [singular]—snooper noun [countable]
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