snooper:
(also ‘snoop‘; plural: ‘snoopers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a snooper, listening to her conversation
a person who tries to know other people’s private matters/affairs without being asked or invited to do so;
a busybody;
a meddler;
a nosy parker,
two ‘official snoopers’, snooping on each other
Jack is a snooper; always on the prowl in the office, secretly trying to find out what others’ are talking about.
It seems every neighbourhood has snoopers who go about finding about the personal activities of others and then spreading those finding all over.
There are “official snoopers” in every secret agency of governments, like the CIA spies/agents of the USA, whose business it is to find out the secrets of the other departments within the country and abroad.
