Peeping tom
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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.
"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."
- 2 a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Peeping Tom, a tailor in the legend of Lady Godiva who watched Godiva riding naked.