Dictionary

peeping tom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Peeping Tom, a tailor in the legend of Lady Godiva who watched Godiva riding naked.

Meanings

1. A person who watches another without the other's permission and usually without the other's knowledge, especially for the purpose of deriving sexual pleasure from the sight of the other.
   • "They claim that the security is good at UM, but we had five break-ins into student dorms and numerous reports of peeping Toms in the women's dorm bathrooms." 2005, a UM student quoted in College Prowler: University Of Michigan: off the record →ISBN, page 20
   • Reynolds contended that the Chinese was a peeping tom whom he caught spying on his wife one night last March while she was toweling herself after a shower. 1957 June 3, “A Question of Justice”, in Time:
   • The girls complained about peeping Toms. There was a skylight window in the communal ladies' shower, and one night Jennie and a friend looked up while showering, to see two young male faces staring at them from above. 2000, Jeffrey Geri, Oh, Henry, →ISBN, page 148:

Forms

Deriveds

peeping tomism · peeping Thomasina

Relateds

interloper · voyeurism · nosy parker · gatecrasher · encroacher · backseat driver · kibitzer · buttinsky · busybody · persona non grata · meddler · marplot

Synonyms

peeper · voyeur

Translations (45)

ru вуайёр (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ja 覗き魔 (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ru вуайери́стка (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · pdt Glotzkopp (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · is gluggagægir (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ru согляда́тай (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · nl voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · es voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · cs šmírák (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · el μπανιστηρτζής (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · nrf dgîngneux (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · sv fluktare (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · de Voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · mk воајер (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · cs voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · pt espreitador (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · pt voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ar مُتَلَصِّص (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · es mirón (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · de Spanner (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · cmn 偷窺狂 /偷窥狂 (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · nn vinduskikkar (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · fr voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · el οφθαλμοπόρνος (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · sv fönstertittare (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ja 出歯亀 (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · cmn 偷窺者 /偷窥者 (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · da vindueskigger (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · fa هیز (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · el ματάκιας (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · tr röntgenci (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ru подгля́дывающий (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · pl podglądacz (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · el ηδονοβλεψίας (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · sv smygtittare (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · sv voyeur (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · mk ѕиркач (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · fi tirkistelijä (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · cy Twm Pip (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · ru вуайери́ст (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · nb vinduskikker (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · fr voyeuse (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · it guardone (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · fi voyeuristi (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure) · nl gluurder (person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure)