curtain twitcher

noun

A nosy person who watches their neighbours, typically from a curtained window.

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nouncurtain twitcher (plural curtain twitchers)

plural curtain twitchers · alternative curtain-twitcher

  1. UKslangA nosy person who watches their neighbours, typically from a curtained window.

    […]the reader is also accepting the role of curtain twitcher or peeping Tom.

    2004, Harold Love, English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702
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    […]but these self-invited guests made her feel like a curtain-twitcher of the worst kind and she resented them for it.

    2002, Patrick Gale, Rough Music

    The curtain twitcher who saw the incident exclaimed in detail what had happened and it was pretty obvious that Burnett did not mean to kill him.

    2007, Sean Parker, Junkyard Dog

    I’m not a curtain-twitcher, OK? I’m just a little bit nosy and happen to procrastinate by staring out of the window.

    2025 July 22, Arwa Mahdawi, “Obsessed with the Coldplay kiss cam story? I was too, until I realised the sinister truth at the heart of it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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