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curtain twitcher (plural curtain twitchers)

1. (British, slang) A nosy person who watches their neighbours, typically from a curtained window.
   • 2002, Patrick Gale, Rough Music:

     […] but these self-invited guests made her feel like a curtain-twitcher of the worst kind and she resented them for it.

   • 2004, Harold Love, English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702:

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

   • 2007, Sean Parker, Junkyard Dog:

     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.

   • 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:

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

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