Leavesdrop

The trough attached to a roof that collects leaves and transports rain water to the ground

I must clean the leaves out of the leavesdrops.

by Princess100 December 12, 2012

leavesdropping

To read someone’s tea leaves, coffee grounds, wine residue or other sediment for the purpose of prediction without permission.

Origin: Tea with Annie.

Did you look in her tea cup without asking? That’s leavesdropping!

by teawithannie.com May 09, 2018

leavesdropping

Da telltale loosening and allowing to fall of individual foliage-units from a tree in which you're hiding in an effort to spy on someone below you; da random sprinklings of said released chlorophyll-bearers will likely alert even a mildly-observant surveillance-target dat he is currently not "alone with his thoughts", but has company from above.

There was nobody underneath da tree-limb dat George McFly was perching on to perform his "peeping Tom" routine through Lorraine's Baines's window, so even if there had been a bit of resulting leavesdropping, George's lecherous shenanigans would still likely have gone unnoticed.

by QuacksO January 27, 2023