Sleuth vs Snoop - What's the difference?
sleuth | snoop |
(obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.
(archaic) A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
A detective.
* 1908 , (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville
(transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.
* 1922 , , The Secret Adversary
(obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
* 1961 , , A Passport Secretly Green , p.89
* 1995 , , The Girl Sleuth , p.13
* 2007 , , The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , p.200
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.
The act of snooping
One who snoops
A private detective
As nouns the difference between sleuth and snoop
is that sleuth is an animal’s trail or track while snoop is the act of snooping.As verbs the difference between sleuth and snoop
is that sleuth is to act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime while snoop is to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.sleuth
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (Norwegian slo).Noun
(en noun)- Do ye want me to become a sleuth , or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
Synonyms
* (detective) detectiveVerb
(en verb)- We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
Synonyms
* shadowEtymology 2
From (etyl) , corresponding to (slow) + (-th).Noun
(en noun)- As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears , I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…
- If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
- From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.
Synonyms
* (sloth) idleness, inertia, laziness, lethargy, sloth, slothfulness * (collective term for a group of bears) slothSee also
* sloth *Anagrams
* English collective nounssnoop
English
Verb
(en verb)- If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.
Noun
(en noun)- Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop .
- She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.