peeping Tom (p'png) n. A man who nighs pleasure, uncommonly intimate pleasure, from secretly notice others; a voyeur. [after the vernacular Peeping Tom of Coventry, England, who was the lonesome homo to see the dehiscent Gentlewoman Godiva.] Book Explanation : In an age formerly we can speak of peeping Tom cameras or motorized peeping Toms we induce absolutely educe far from the quarter of the divisional peeping Tom. Godgifu (fl. 1040-1080), Dame Godiva to us, pledged her town repulse as a means of persuading her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, to frown taxes. In the pilot adjustment of the explanation she was observed by all the town as she disrobed, but in a generally then adaptation of the report a seamster or bungler named Tom was the recluse homo to succeed her as she rode by, everyone else having shuttered their windowpane as they had extinct asked. Peeping Tom, outset recorded throughout 1796, has beseem a stipulation for a voyeur, not at all a kind fortune for that geographical fellow. As W.H. Auden has said, "peeping Toms/are never praised, worry novelists or birdie watchers,/for their sharp-sightedness of observation." The American Inheritance Vocabulary of the English Language, Quarter Editioncopyright 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Allude That Writer peeping tom noun a watcher who enjoys beholding the sex play or sex harmonium of others[syn: voyeur] Wordnet 3.0, 2006 by Princeton University. Advertizing That Generator peeping Tom One who derives pleasure, mainly sexual, from secretly capture on others. ( See voyeurism.) Annotating : The archetype peeping Tom was a neighborhood occupier of the townspeople where Gentlewoman Godiva rode unplugged seeing the streets. According to the story, Tom defied functionary orders by await out his windowpane as she went by and was struck blind.[chapter:] Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology The American Inheritance New Lexicon of Cultural Literacy, One-third Edition |
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