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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread What's the word for ...? #159615 05/08/2006 10:19 PM Joined: May 2006 Posts: 1 mandy stranger mandy stranger Joined: May 2006 Posts: 1 I know it's a bit late for this topic, but if anyone can help me track down a particular word, it'll bet you can. Once, while on a walking tour of London, the guide used the term that everyone suffers, the compulsion we have to peer in the windows of other peoples houses. No not 'peeping tom'. You know if your walking down a street, especially at night when it's dark, if there's a house with the curtains open, one cannot help but look in as they pass by. You don't stop to look, but as you're passing, if you can see in you look. As I said, the tour guide mentioned the term for this & I cannot for the life of me remember what it is. Can you help? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the word for ...? #159616 05/08/2006 11:58 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC voyeurism TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the word for ...? #159617 05/08/2006 11:59 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC And I don't know about the law in England, but it is common law here in the United States that windows are for looking out of, not into. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the word for ...? #159618 05/09/2006 12:30 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass that's as may be; but here's a word more specific to the question, and probly wrong as well: cryptoscopophilia - the urge to look through the windows of homes you walk past Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the word for ...? #159619 05/09/2006 1:36 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City It is transparent. Windows are for looking out of by day and into by night. Curtains are common law. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the word for ...? #159620 05/09/2006 2:40 AM Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada Elizabeth Creith addict Elizabeth Creith addict Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 500 Northern Ontario, Canada Quote: It is transparent. Windows are for looking out of by day and into by night. Curtains are common law. And, in an urban area, common sense. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's the word for ...? #159621 05/09/2006 9:46 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... peepingtommery...? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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