snooper
noun/ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/
Etymology From snoop + -er.
1
A person who snoops.
- Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 87:
- Apps like WhatsApp currently prevent any snoopers from reading your messages using end-to-end encryption, jumbling it up in such a way that only the recipient can de-jumble it.2017 July 14, Timothy Revell, “Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM”, in New Scientist:
- Derived terms
- snooperscope