peeping tom
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- ""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.""