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Snoop vs Stickybeak - What's the difference?

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Snoop is a synonym of stickybeak.


As verbs the difference between snoop and stickybeak

is that snoop is to be devious and cunning so as not to be seen while stickybeak is (australia|new zealand) to pry or snoop.

As nouns the difference between snoop and stickybeak

is that snoop is the act of snooping while stickybeak is (australia|new zealand|colloquial) an overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker.

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.

    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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    stickybeak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 109:
  • *:I walked back towards the grinning stickybeak who took a few steps backwards before fleeing for the steamy safety of his laundry.
  • * 1994 , Robin Barker, Baby Love , 2009, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 419,
  • Babies of this age are delightful stickybeaks , vitally interested in everything and everyone around them.
  • * 1999 , , 2012, Text Publishing, unnumbered page,
  • And I like a chat, kind of thing.
    She glanced at Harley.
    Plus I?m a stickybeak , as you know.
  • * 2004 , Lynne Wilding, Outback Sunset , 2010, unnumbered page,
  • Vanessa took hold of his hand. ‘She?s a dear friend as well as my business manager and,’ she giggled as she admitted her agent?s greatest flaw, ‘when it comes to her clients, the world?s biggest stickybeak .’
  • (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An act of looking at or watching something, especially something which does not directly concern the one looking.
  • * 2009 , Australia Justine Vaisutis, Lonely Planet, page 239,
  • It?s worth popping into the bar for a stickybeak .
  • * 2009 , , Piano Lessons , 2011, page 109,
  • Between properties, we stopped off for tea with my grandmother and my aunt, and my mother produced her stash of floor plans like enemy intelligence: ‘Have a stickybeak at this!’
  • * 2010 , , Ten Hail Marys , page 4,
  • God knows what the other patients and staff made of a mob of blackfellas rocking up to visit one of our own, in a private room, to have a stickybeak at the new bub.

    Synonyms

    * (overly inquisitive person) nosey parker, snoop * (act of looking) look-see

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, New Zealand) To pry or snoop.
  • * 2007 , Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop , page 104,
  • Two of the more arrogant birds actually inspected the inside of the tent, clucking away to each other as they stickybeaked .
  • * 2007 , Harry Hill, He Was My Father , Rosenberg Publishing, Australia, page 124,
  • When my father had shorn for the Lindleys, I had spent a day at the shed, stickybeaking at everything but making sure I didn?t upset shed activities.
  • * 2009 , , The Story of Danny Dunn , 2011, ReadHowYouWant, Volume 1 of 2, page 202,
  • I wasn?t stickybeaking or anything, it was at the main bar and your mother mustn?t have realised I was in my usual spot.

    References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989