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  • 41Peeping Tom —    a sexual voyeur    Leofric, the Anglo Saxon Lord of Coventry, agreed to postpone an increase in taxes if his wife, Godiva, rode naked through the streets.    The townspeople were forbidden to watch, and how anybody would have known if Tom hadn …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 42peeping Tom — someone who looks in people s windows The police arrested a peeping Tom near our apartment building last week …

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  • 43Peeping Tom —   A peeping Tom is someone who likes spy on people when they are naked or having sex: a voyeur …

    Dictionary of English idioms

  • 44peeping Tom — /pipɪŋ ˈtɒm/ (say peeping tom) noun a prying, furtive observer, often for sexual gratification; voyeur. {allusion to the man who peeped at Lady Godiva riding naked through Coventry} …

  • 45Peeping Tom — As used in reference to, e.g., Peeping Tom statute, has commonly understood meaning as one who sneaks up to window and peeps in for purpose of spying on and invading privacy of inhabitants. Matter of Banks, 295 N.C. 236, 244 S.E.2d 386, 389 …

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  • 46peeping — noun The action of the verb to peep …

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  • 47peeping — pɪːp n. peek; brief look v. peek; look briefly …

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  • 49peeping testis — an undescended testis in the peritoneal cavity that moves slightly across the internal inguinal ring …

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  • 50Peeping Tom — Synonyms and related words: Paul Pry, busybody, eavesdropper, gossip, inquirer, inquisitive, inquisitor, nosy Parker, pry, querier, querist, questioner, quidnunc, rubberneck, rubbernecker, scopophiliac, sightseer, snoop, snooper, voyeur, yenta …

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