覗き
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ぞ
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Meanings
1
noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
The act of secretly looking at something, often with a voyeuristic nuance. Can also be used more innocently for taking a quick look.
Stop peeping into the next room.
He took a peep through the crack in the door.
3
usually written using kana alonego (game)
In Go, a move that places a stone before a connecting point, threatening to divide the opponent's stones. Usually written in katakana as ノゾキ.
After my opponent played a peep, my stones were about to be cut apart.
Usage patterns
- 〈場所〉で覗きをするto peep (at a place), to commit an act of voyeurism
He was arrested for peeping into the neighbor's bathroom.
- 覗きで捕まるto get caught for peeping
It wasn't the first time that man had been caught for peeping.