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Snoopy

Definition: Snoopy

Snoopy

Adjective

1. Offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day".

Noun

1. A fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz.

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


Synonyms: Snoopy

Synonyms: nosey (adj), nosy (adj), prying (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Snoopy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Curiosity

Adjective: curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory; curious as a cat; agape; (expectant).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Snoopy

English words defined with "snoopy": Charles Munroe Schulz, Charles Schulznosey, nosypryingSchulz. (references)
Specialty definitions using "snoopy": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Snoopy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Although it is worthwhile just to see Xander do the Snoopy dance. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I do not like snoopy reporter with lack of fashion sense, not one little bit. (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller)

I'm going to mount you Snoopy Doggy Dogg style, housewife. (Girl 6; writing credit: Suzan-Lori Parks)

Movie/TV Titles

Snoopy Loopy (1960)

The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (1983)

Song Titles

Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron (performing artist: The Royal Guardsmen)

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

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Commercial Usage: Snoopy

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Snoopy, Come Home (reference)

  • Snoopy Double Feature Vol. 2 (He's Your Dog/It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown) (reference)

  • A Peanuts Special: Snoopy the Musical (reference)

  • Snoopy Double Feature Vol. 1 (You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown/Snoopy's Reunion) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Usage Frequency: Snoopy

"Snoopy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.58% of the time. "Snoopy" is used about 53 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 (proper)73.58%3955,036
Adjective (general or positive)26.42%1493,893
                    Total100.00%53N/A

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

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Expression: Snoopy

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "snoopy": snoopy-like.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snoopy

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

snoopy

3,678

my little snoopy

26

picture of snoopy

276

snoopy screen saver

24

baby snoopy

252

snoopy store

22

camp snoopy

173

persona snoopy

22

snoopy wallpaper

167

snoopy collectible

22

snoopy screensaver

70

snoopy woodstock picture

22

snoopy pic

63

snoopy image

21

peanut and snoopy

61

coloring page snoopy

20

red baron and snoopy

55

snoopy desktop theme

20

snoopy and woodstock

55

snoopy joe cool

19

snoopy clipart

45

buddy icon snoopy

19

cartoon snoopy

44

snoopy card

19

clip art of snoopy

40

baby shower snoopy

19

snoopy title

40

snoopy etc

18

snoopy watch

37

snoopy comic

18

snoopy icon

34

snoopy baby bedding

17

snoopy dog

34

snoopy flag

17

snoopy e card

30

snoopy tattoo

17

charlie brown snoopy

28

snoopy dancing

17

fabric snoopy

27

snoopy graphic

16

baby picture snoopy

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snoopy

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

Farsi 

  

پویان (Prowler), دزدکی (Privy, Slinky, Stealthy), بعمل اورنده تحقیقات محرمانه . (various references)

   

German

  

neugierig (agog, curious, inquisitive, inquisitively, inquisitorial, longing to know, nosey, nosily, nosy, prying, pryingly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Φιλοπερίεργοσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

curioso (agog, curious, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, nosey, nosy, peculiar, pry, quaint, queer, rummy, sightseeing). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

スナック麺 (circlip, snack noodle, snake, snake dance, snakeskin, snap, snap ring, snapshot, snatch, sneak in, sneak out, sneak preview, sneaker, snob, snobbism, snooker, snorkel, snow, snow boat, snow gun, snow mobile, snow surfing, snow tire, spark, spark plug, sparkling wine, sparring, sparring partner, spatula, sperm bank, spice, spider, spike, spike heel, spiked shoes, spiker, spiky cut, spiral, spurt, spy, studded snow tire). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

スヌー"ー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopysnay

   

Russian 

  

высматривающий (peeping), выслеживающий, назойливо любопытный (inquisitive). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

curioso (agog, curious, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, intriguing, nosey, prying, quizzical, snooping, staring). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Snokande (nosey, nosy, snooping), Snobben. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งสอ"รู้สอ"เห็น (nosey, nosy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, splenetic), Her Ýşe Burnunu Sokan. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

sokgarylmak (be snoopy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Snoopy

Misspellings

"Snoopy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sloopy, sneepy, snoopa, snoope, snoopi, snop, snory, swoopy. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Snoopy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "snoopy" (pronounced snuw"pē)
3-uw" p ēdroopy, groupie, Loopy, soupy, Whoopie.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Snoopy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: spoony.

Words within the letters "n-o-o-p-s-y"

-1 letter: poons, snoop, spoon.

-2 letters: nosy, oops, pons, pony, poon, posy, soon.

-3 letters: noo, nos, ons, ops, son, sop, soy, spy, syn, yon.

-4 letters: no, on, op, os, oy, so, yo.

 Words containing the letters "n-o-o-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: spooney, youpons.

 

+2 letters: duopsony, opsonify, polygons, snoopily, spooneys, spoonily, toponyms, typhoons.

 

+3 letters: endoscopy, eponymous, hyponoias, hypopyons, monopsony, monotypes, polyzoans, sporogony.

 

+4 letters: anisotropy, gynophores, hypogynous, hypotonias, monkeypods, oligopsony, paronymous, polygonies, polygonums, polygynous, polyphones, responsory, rhinoscopy, scyphozoan, sonography, syncopator, toponymies, toponymist, xylophones.

 

+5 letters: hydrophones, hydroponics, hypotension, monophylies, opsonifying, outspokenly, physiognomy, pinocytoses, pinocytosis, poisonously, polyandrous, polyhedrons, polynomials, polyolefins, polyonymous, polyphenols, polyphonies, polyphonous, ponderously, pycnogonids, pyroxenoids, retinoscopy, scyphozoans, stereophony, symphonious, synaptosome, syncopation, syncopators, toponymists, tropomyosin, trypanosome, xylophonist.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Snoopy


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

53 6E 6F 6F 70 79

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)

...    -.    ---    ---    .--.    -.--.

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

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

01010011 01101110 01101111 01101111 01110000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#111 &#111 &#112 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 006F 006F 0070 0079

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

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

538081818291

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INDEX

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


  

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