peeping Tomn.

Brit.

/ˌpiːpɪŋ ˈtɒm/, U.S.

/ˌpipɪŋ ˈtɑm/

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: peeping adj.¹, proper name Tom.

Etymology: < peeping adj.¹ + Tom, pet form of the male forename Thomas (see Tom n.¹), the name given to a prying tailor said to have been struck blind (or, in some versions of the story, struck dead) after watching Lady Godiva ride naked through Coventry in her protest against her husband's oppressive taxation of the people of the city. Compare earlier peeper n.²The character of Peeping Tom is generally held to be an 18th-cent. addition to the Godiva story (the event itself is believed to have taken place in the 11th cent.). For an early reference compare:1740 G. Langley Life 34 Some Hunt, some Course, and the rest stand gaping (like peeping Tom of Coventry) at the Race Horses.In the Coventry city accounts the name peeping Tom first appears on 11 June 1773 where it is noted that a new wig and fresh paint have been provided for his effigy.

A person who watches or spies on others, esp. pruriently; spec. a man who obtains sexual pleasure from furtively watching others undress or engage in sexual activity; a voyeur. Also as a nickname.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > voyeurism > person

peeping Tom1769

voyeur1900

scopophilic1931

scoptophilist1931

pimp1940

scopophiliac1940

voyeurist1955

dogger1982

the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying > person engaged in > pruriently

peeping Tom1769

1769 Private Lett. from Amer. in Eng. 155 All the old ones (more particularly his Grace of ——) had got the names of Peeping Tom.

1780 Picture-gallery 65 Godiva is so unwarrantably careful of exposing every charm, that we suspect she has posted more than one peeping Tom to have a glance at her beauties.

1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) (at cited word) Peeping Tom, a nick name for a curious prying fellow.

1816 J. Wolcot Wks. Peter Pindar III. 89 When, lo, of curiosity a head, A peeping Tom, may from a window poke.

1869 J. H. Browne Great Metropolis 452 I should suppose that would be the most entertaining of the clubs, and that any Peeping Tom might be paid for his curiosity.

1926 G. Hunting Vicarion ii. 38 What sort was a man who did not instinctively respect the privacy of others?—not mere physical privacy, on which any Peeping Tom might intrude, but the infinitely more intimate thing, to spy upon which was violation.

1955 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Nov. 30/7 The House Judiciary Committee is sending its general counsel here from Washington today to attend the City Council hearing on a bill to outlaw electronic ‘peeping toms’.

1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 42 Peeping Toms Are never praised, like novelists or bird watchers, For their keenness of observation.

1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 38 At various times during the preceding year, there had been complaints of Peeping Toms.

1995 Sun 25 July 11/1 Cops are using four-wheel drive ‘quad’ scooters to nab peeping toms who film sunbathers on nudist beaches in The Hague, Holland.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1915 R. Frost Let. 11 Nov. (1964) 17 She executes a frightfulness. Somewhere else she brings in the Peeping-Tom idea.

1958 Times 12 Nov. 3/4 The peeping-Tom eroticism of such basically crude pictures as those of Labisse and Delvaux.

1966 Guardian 26 Mar. 1/6 They've had Peeping Tom cameras and now they've got eavesdropping microphones.

1992 Sun 16 Sept. 1/2 Anguished Fergie and her pal Johnny Bryan are suing a ‘peeping tom’ photographer over the topless holiday snaps.

C2.

Peeping Tom statute n. U.S. Criminal Law an act outlawing intrusive voyeurism.

ΚΠ

1951 Arkansas Law Rev. 5 388 In the only ‘Peeping Tom’ statute yet reviewed by a state court of last resort, the language ‘any male person who goes near and stares, gazes or peeps into any room, apartment, chamber or other place of abode, not his own or under his control, which is occupied by a female person..’ was held to violate the fourteenth Amendment for vagueness and uncertainty.

1978 South Eastern Reporter 244 389/1 We now turn to an examination of G.S. 14- 202, commonly known as the ‘Peeping Tom’ statute.

1989 Amer. Law Rev. 67 1131/2 Affirming a conviction of a male for violation of a ‘Peeping Tom’ statute, the court ruled that the singling out of males for prosecution under the statute was permissible.

Derivatives

peeping ˈTomism n. = peeping Tommery n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > voyeurism

scopophilia1924

voyeurism1924

mixoscopia1939

peeping Tomism1954

peeping Tommery1960

1954 Los Angeles Times 25 Nov. f7/8 I'm 60 years old, and when I was in grammar school the same thing (peeping Tomism) was going on as it is now.

1968 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 73 747/2 No nakedness need be observed to make Peeping Tomism intolerable.

1991 C. Paglia Sex, Art & Amer. Culture (1992) 129 He accused them of ‘peeking’, of peeping Tomism.

peeping ˈTommery n. the behaviour of a peeping Tom; voyeurism.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > voyeurism

scopophilia1924

voyeurism1924

mixoscopia1939

peeping Tomism1954

peeping Tommery1960

1960 Spectator 21 Oct. 602/3 Those semi-nude gambols [in a cinema film]..break any feeling of reality second by second by giving one a sense of peeping-tommery.

1974 M. Kelly That Girl in Alley vii. 120 To avoid bringing myself into suspicion of peeping-tommery I moved a few steps down the yard, out of sight of the drilling class.

1994 Guardian 17 Mar. ii. 21/1 Isn't it a nasty species of commercial peeping Tommery to expose people's souls in ways they won't fully understand?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peeping tom
释义	peeping Tomn. Brit. /ˌpiːpɪŋ ˈtɒm/, U.S. /ˌpipɪŋ ˈtɑm/ Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: peeping adj.¹, proper name Tom. Etymology: < peeping adj.¹ + Tom, pet form of the male forename Thomas (see Tom n.¹), the name given to a prying tailor said to have been struck blind (or, in some versions of the story, struck dead) after watching Lady Godiva ride naked through Coventry in her protest against her husband's oppressive taxation of the people of the city. Compare earlier peeper n.²The character of Peeping Tom is generally held to be an 18th-cent. addition to the Godiva story (the event itself is believed to have taken place in the 11th cent.). For an early reference compare:1740 G. Langley Life 34 Some Hunt, some Course, and the rest stand gaping (like peeping Tom of Coventry) at the Race Horses.In the Coventry city accounts the name peeping Tom first appears on 11 June 1773 where it is noted that a new wig and fresh paint have been provided for his effigy. A person who watches or spies on others, esp. pruriently; spec. a man who obtains sexual pleasure from furtively watching others undress or engage in sexual activity; a voyeur. Also as a nickname. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > voyeurism > person peeping Tom1769 voyeur1900 scopophilic1931 scoptophilist1931 pimp1940 scopophiliac1940 voyeurist1955 dogger1982 the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying > person engaged in > pruriently peeping Tom1769 1769 Private Lett. from Amer. in Eng. 155 All the old ones (more particularly his Grace of ——) had got the names of Peeping Tom. 1780 Picture-gallery 65 Godiva is so unwarrantably careful of exposing every charm, that we suspect she has posted more than one peeping Tom to have a glance at her beauties. 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) (at cited word) Peeping Tom, a nick name for a curious prying fellow. 1816 J. Wolcot Wks. Peter Pindar III. 89 When, lo, of curiosity a head, A peeping Tom, may from a window poke. 1869 J. H. Browne Great Metropolis 452 I should suppose that would be the most entertaining of the clubs, and that any Peeping Tom might be paid for his curiosity. 1926 G. Hunting Vicarion ii. 38 What sort was a man who did not instinctively respect the privacy of others?—not mere physical privacy, on which any Peeping Tom might intrude, but the infinitely more intimate thing, to spy upon which was violation. 1955 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Nov. 30/7 The House Judiciary Committee is sending its general counsel here from Washington today to attend the City Council hearing on a bill to outlaw electronic ‘peeping toms’. 1965 W. H. Auden About House (1966) 42 Peeping Toms Are never praised, like novelists or bird watchers, For their keenness of observation. 1977 Transatlantic Rev. No. 60. 38 At various times during the preceding year, there had been complaints of Peeping Toms. 1995 Sun 25 July 11/1 Cops are using four-wheel drive ‘quad’ scooters to nab peeping toms who film sunbathers on nudist beaches in The Hague, Holland. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1915 R. Frost Let. 11 Nov. (1964) 17 She executes a frightfulness. Somewhere else she brings in the Peeping-Tom idea. 1958 Times 12 Nov. 3/4 The peeping-Tom eroticism of such basically crude pictures as those of Labisse and Delvaux. 1966 Guardian 26 Mar. 1/6 They've had Peeping Tom cameras and now they've got eavesdropping microphones. 1992 Sun 16 Sept. 1/2 Anguished Fergie and her pal Johnny Bryan are suing a ‘peeping tom’ photographer over the topless holiday snaps. C2. Peeping Tom statute n. U.S. Criminal Law an act outlawing intrusive voyeurism. ΚΠ 1951 Arkansas Law Rev. 5 388 In the only ‘Peeping Tom’ statute yet reviewed by a state court of last resort, the language ‘any male person who goes near and stares, gazes or peeps into any room, apartment, chamber or other place of abode, not his own or under his control, which is occupied by a female person..’ was held to violate the fourteenth Amendment for vagueness and uncertainty. 1978 South Eastern Reporter 244 389/1 We now turn to an examination of G.S. 14- 202, commonly known as the ‘Peeping Tom’ statute. 1989 Amer. Law Rev. 67 1131/2 Affirming a conviction of a male for violation of a ‘Peeping Tom’ statute, the court ruled that the singling out of males for prosecution under the statute was permissible. Derivatives peeping ˈTomism n. = peeping Tommery n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > voyeurism scopophilia1924 voyeurism1924 mixoscopia1939 peeping Tomism1954 peeping Tommery1960 1954 Los Angeles Times 25 Nov. f7/8 I'm 60 years old, and when I was in grammar school the same thing (peeping Tomism) was going on as it is now. 1968 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 73 747/2 No nakedness need be observed to make Peeping Tomism intolerable. 1991 C. Paglia Sex, Art & Amer. Culture (1992) 129 He accused them of ‘peeking’, of peeping Tomism. peeping ˈTommery n. the behaviour of a peeping Tom; voyeurism. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > voyeurism scopophilia1924 voyeurism1924 mixoscopia1939 peeping Tomism1954 peeping Tommery1960 1960 Spectator 21 Oct. 602/3 Those semi-nude gambols [in a cinema film]..break any feeling of reality second by second by giving one a sense of peeping-tommery. 1974 M. Kelly That Girl in Alley vii. 120 To avoid bringing myself into suspicion of peeping-tommery I moved a few steps down the yard, out of sight of the drilling class. 1994 Guardian 17 Mar. ii. 21/1 Isn't it a nasty species of commercial peeping Tommery to expose people's souls in ways they won't fully understand? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1769
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