peeping tom
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From Peeping Tom, a tailor in the legend of Lady Godiva who watched Godiva riding naked.
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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, "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.
- 1957, "A Question of Justice," Time, 3 Jun.,