peeping tom
Noun
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Noun
peeping tom (plural peeping toms)
- 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.
- 1957, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824940,00.html A Question of Justice]," Time, 3 Jun.,
- 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.
- 2005, a UM student quoted in College Prowler: University Of Michigan: off the record ISBN 1596581638, page 20:
- "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."
- 1957, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824940,00.html A Question of Justice]," Time, 3 Jun.,
- French: voyeur, voyeuse
- German: Voyeur, Spanner
- Italian: guardone
- Portuguese: voyeur, espreitador
- Russian: вуайери́ст
- Spanish: voyeur, mirón
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