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Rummage vs Snoop - What's the difference?

rummage | snoop |

As verbs the difference between rummage and snoop

is that rummage is to arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods while snoop is to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.

As nouns the difference between rummage and snoop

is that rummage is commotion; disturbance while snoop is the act of snooping.

rummage

English

Verb

(rummag)
  • (nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
  • (nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
  • To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
  • * Howell
    • Hesearcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
  • * (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
    • What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
  • A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
  • * Walpole
    • He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
  • An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
  • (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage .

    • Quotations

    ''"And this, I take it,
    ''Is the main motive of our preparations
    ''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
    Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
    - Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106

    Related terms

    * look * quarry * rake * search

    See also

    * rummage sale

    snoop

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
  • To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
    • If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.

    Related terms

    * snoop around

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of snooping
  • One who snoops
    • Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop .
  • A private detective
    • She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.

    References

    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

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