eavesdropped
verb (used without object)
1.
to listen secretly to a private conversation.
verb (used with object)
2.
Archaic. to eavesdrop on.
noun Also, eaves·drip 
[eevz-drip] .
[eevz-drip] . 3.
water that drips from the eaves.
4.
the ground on which such water falls.
Origin:
before 900; (noun) Middle English evesdrope, evesdripe, Old English yfesdrype; as v., probably back formation from eavesdropper, late Middle English evisdroppyr, apparently literally, one who stands on the eavesdrop in order to listen to conversations inside the house; see eave, drop, drip
before 900; (noun) Middle English evesdrope, evesdripe, Old English yfesdrype; as v., probably back formation from eavesdropper, late Middle English evisdroppyr, apparently literally, one who stands on the eavesdrop in order to listen to conversations inside the house; see eave, drop, drip
Related forms
eaves·drop·per, noun
an·ti·eaves·drop·ping, adjective
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| —vb , -drops, -dropping, -dropped | |
| (intr) to listen secretly to the private conversation of others | |
| [C17: back formation from earlier evesdropper, from Old English yfesdrype water dripping from the eaves; see | |
| 'eavesdropper | |
| —n | |
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Eavesdropped
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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