voyeur

From French voyeur, from voir (“to see”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɔɪːˈjɜː/, /vwɑˈjɜː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /vɔɪˈjɜɹ/, /vwɑˈjɜr/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: vo‧yeur

voyeur (plural voyeurs)

1. A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism.

   Synonyms: peeping tom, (dated) inspectionist, (US, gay slang) eyeball queen

2. An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.

• voyeurism
• voyeuse (“female voyeur”)

• exhibitionist
• creepshot
• scopophile

voyeur m anim

1. voyeur

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• See vize

• “voyeur”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “voyeur”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

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voyeur m (plural voyeurs, diminutive voyeurtje n)

1. voyeur

From voir (“to see”) +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /vwa.jœʁ/

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voyeur m (plural voyeurs, feminine voyeuse)

1. observer; watcher
2. voyeur, peeping tom

• voyeurisme

• “voyeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Internationalism, unadapted borrowing from Dutch voyeur, from French voyeur.

voyeur (plural voyeur-voyeur)

1. (psychology) voyeur

• “voyeur” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing from French voyeur.

voyeur m or f by sense (plural voyeurs)

1. voyeur (person who derives sexual pleasure from secretly observing others having sex)
   • 2014, Diney, Ramon Torres, Diógines Tiee, “Voyeur” (0:16 from the start), in Mistério, performed by Belo, São Paulo: Sony Music:

     Prepare a mesa do café / Eu sinto teu cheiro de mulher / Eu tô chegando / Um brigadeiro de colher / Hoje eu fico de voyeur / Te admirando

     /vojˈɛʁ/

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• “voyeur”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Unadapted borrowing from French voyeur.

• Rhymes: -eɾ

voyeur m (plural voyeurs or voyeur)

1. voyeur

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “voyeur”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

voyeur c

1. a voyeur (who derives sexual pleasure from watching other people's erotic activity)

• voyeurism

• flukta
• fluktare
• fönstertittare

• voyeur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• voyeur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• voyeur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)