Etymology

creepshot

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Today it means: A surreptitiously taken photograph of a person (usually a woman) focusing on sexualized areas of the body such as the breasts, groin, or buttocks. Full definition →

English shot ← Middle English schot ← Old English sċot
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*grewbʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*kreupaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*kreupan
  4. Old Englishcrēopan
  5. Middle Englishcrepen
  6. Englishcreep
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewd-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kéwd-(o-m)?
  9. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewd-der.?
  10. Proto-Indo-European*sket-der.?
  11. Proto-Germanic*skut(t)-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*(ó)-os
  13. Proto-Germanic*skutą
  14. Old Englishsċot
  15. Middle Englishschot
  16. Englishshot
  17. English todaycreepshot

From creep + shot.

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