Sloop vs Snoop - What's the difference?
sloop | snoop |
(label) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
* 1789 , (Olaudah Equiano) (Gustavus Vassa), (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano) ,
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(label) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
A sloop of war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
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 sloop and snoop
is that sloop is (label) a single-masted sailboat with only one headsail while snoop is the act of snooping.As a verb snoop is
to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.sloop
English
(wikipedia sloop)Noun
(en noun)- I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
Anagrams
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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.