peeping tom

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

peeping toms plural peeping Tom alternative Peeping Tom alternative

词源

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