peeping
Sneaking a glance
Peeping is looking furtively or through a small opening—the kind of looking you do when you don't want to be seen doing it.
A peeping Tom is a voyeur who spies on people in private moments, especially through windows.
The phrase comes from the legend of Lady Godiva, where Tom was struck blind for peeking at her naked ride through Coventry.
Studying something with concentration
- spyingSecretly observing others
- watchingActively looking at something
- oglingStaring with desire
- leeringStaring with lustful intent
glimpsing · snooping · observing · gazing · staring · eyeing · gawking · rubbernecking
High repeated animal calls
- cheepingMaking shrill bird cries
- squeakingHigh, thin sound
- chicksNewly hatched birds
- birdsEgg-laying flying vertebrates
hatchlings · nestlings · fledglings · tweets · twitters · piping · shrill · faint
peering
Studying something with concentration
leering · glimpsing · snooping · observing · gazing · staring · eyeing · gawking · rubbernecking · keyhole
chirping
High repeated animal calls
birds · hatchlings · nestlings · fledglings · tweets · twitters · piping · shrill · faint · soft
sneaking
Moving to avoid detection
prowling · tiptoeing · stealthy · covert · surreptitious · clandestine · furtive · secretive · hidden · unseen
emerging
Coming into view
- appearingBecoming visible or present
- sproutingSeeds beginning growth
- buddingDeveloping from an outgrowth
poking · showing · surfacing · rising · dawning · glimmering · breaking through · sun · shoots · sprouts
- bird soundschirp, birdcall, tweet, bird songs, cheep
- viewinggazing, staring, peering, observing, glancing
- privacy violationsinvasion of privacy, data breach, privacy invasion, privacy breach, eavesdropping
- searchingsearching, rummaging, digging, looking through, finding
- perceptionsee, vision, seeing, senses, observing
- secrecysecrecy, secret, secrets, confidential, classified
peepinggazing
Prolonged, intent looking
gawking · ogling · glaring · scrutinizing · surveying
peepingroaring
Making prolonged loud noise
bellowing · booming · thundering · blaring · trumpeting
peepinglooming
Appearing threateningly close
protruding · standing out · dominating · towering · hiding
- peeping TomSecretly watches private moments
- leaf peepingObserving autumn's colorful trees