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Snooper

Definition: Snooper

Snooper

Noun

1. A spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Snooper

Synonym: snoop (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Snooper

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A computer program used to capture user passwords by listening on a network interface card and searching for username/password pairs in the network traffic data. Also called a sniffer or packet sniffer.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snooper."

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Modern Usage: Snooper

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

A Dog Gone Snooper (1963)

The Super Snooper (1952)

Snooper Service (1945)

The Super Snooper (1937)

24/7 31: Snooper Man (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Snooper

DomainTitle

Books

  • Case Of The Haunted Camp (SVK Super Snooper #3) (reference)

  • Garbage Snooper Surprise (reference)

  • No Voice From the Hall - Early Memories of a Country House Snooper (reference)

  • Sam Sleuth Snooper Dog (reference)

  • The Case of the Alien Princess (Sweet Valley Kids Super Snooper, No. 7) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Snooper

"Snooper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snooper" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snooper

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

snooper

85

url snooper

38

project snooper url

36

desktop snooper

22

hollywood hopper snooper

8

snooper radar detector

7

s6 snooper

5

download snooper url

3

snooper s5

3

keystroke snooper

3

ip snooper

3

snooper sound

3

snooper super

3

network snooper

2

rifle snooper

2

blabber snooper

2

r s6 snooper

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snooper

Language Translations for "snooper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zhbirues (penetrating, penetrative, searching, snoop). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kdo šmíruje, fízl (finger, informer, nark), èmuchal (smeller). (various references)

   

French

  

fureteur (snuffler). (various references)

   

German

  

Schnüffler (bloodhound, dicks, nosey parker, private eye, sleuth, sniffer, snoopers, snuffler, snufflers, tout). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλλοτριοπραγμών (busybody, quidnunc), αδιάκριτοσ (curious, indiscreet, indistinct, presuming). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szaglászó. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ficcanaso (busybody, dicks, meddlesome, nosey, nosy, peeper, snuffler). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopersnay

   

Portuguese

  

intrometido (disruptive, meddlesome, nosey, nosy, obtrusive, officious, pragmatical, pushing, pushy), bisbilhoteiro (newsmonger, quidnunc, sieve). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

совать нос в чужие дела. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

njuškalo (busybody, nosey, sniffer, snoop). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

investigador encubierto, fisgón (nosey, nosey parker, nosy, prier, prying, snoop, snooping), espía (keek, Spier, spook, spy, warping). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snokande person. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนสอ"แนม (snoop). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

людина, що сова" носа в чужі справи (snoop). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Snooper

Derivations

Words beginning with "snooper": snoopers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Snooper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shooper, snoober, snoopa, snoope, snooter, snoozer, Sonepur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Snooper

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: operons.

Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: nooser, operon, person, pornos, porose, sooner.

-2 letters: noose, opens, peons, pones, poons, pores, porno, porns, poser, prone, prose, proso, repos, roose, ropes, senor, snoop, snore, sopor, spoon, spoor, spore.

-3 letters: eons, epos, erns, eros, noes, nope, nose, ones, oops, open, opes, ores, pens, peon, peso, pone, pons, poon, poor, pore, porn, pose, pros.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: poisoner, poorness, prognose, propones, snoopers, snoopier, spoonier.

 

+2 letters: cornpones, endospore, gonopores, neomorphs, nonperson, noosphere, openworks, pecorinos, poisoners, ponderosa, ponderous, postponer, prognosed, prognoses, prolonges, propenols, sponsored, stonecrop.

 

+3 letters: coprisoner, correspond, desorption, endomorphs, endospores, entoprocts, entropions, forespoken, gonophores, gynophores, harpooners, ionophores, ionosphere, isoprenoid, lampooners, morphogens, necropoles, necropolis, neotropics, neurospora, nonpersons, nonprossed, nonprosses, noospheres, operations, oppression, personator, personhood, pheromones, ponderosas, poornesses, porousness, portentous, postmodern, postponers, prenotions, procession, profession, prolongers, pronatores, pronephros, pronounces, proponents, protonates, provolones, reopposing, reposition, resorption, responsory, spoonerism, sporogenic, stonecrops.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Snooper


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6E 6F 6F 70 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101110 01101111 01101111 01110000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#111 &#111 &#112 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 006F 006F 0070 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53808181827184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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