peeping tom

Wikipedia

English

Etymology

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

Noun

peeping tom (plural peeping toms)

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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• voyeur

Translations

person who secretly watches someone to gain sexual pleasure

Arabic: متلصص (ar) (mutalaSSiS) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 偷窺者 (zh), 偷窥者 (zh) (tōukuī-zhě) Finnish: tirkistelijä (fi), voyeuristi (fi) French: voyeur (fr) m. German: Voyeur (de) m., Spanner (de) m.

Italian: guardone (it) m. Japanese: 出歯亀 (ja) (でばかめ, debakame, でばがめ, debagame), 覗魔 (ja) (のぞきま, nozokima) Russian: вуайерист (ru) (vuajeríst) m., вуайёр (ru) (vuajór) m., соглядатай (ru) (sogljadátaj) m., подглядывающий (ru) (podgljádyvajuščij) m. Turkish: röntgenci (tr)