peephole

peephole

English

View through a peephole

Barack Obama looking through the Oval Office door peephole

Etymology

peep +‎ hole

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /piːphəʊl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /piphoʊl/, IPA^(key): /pʰiphoʊɫ/

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• Hyphenation: peep‧hole

Noun

peephole (plural peepholes)

1. A small hole, opening, or piece of glass, especially in a door, through which one can look without being seen.

Synonyms

• spyhole (UK)
• peekhole
• doorhole
• door viewer

Translations

hole

Arabic: مَنْوَر‎ m (manwar), كُوَّة‎ f (kuwwa), وَصْوَص‎ m (waṣwaṣ), ثَقْب اَلْبَاب‎ (ṯaqb al-bāb) Bulgarian: шпионка (bg) f (špionka) Catalan: espiera (ca) f, espiell (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: (a small hole or opening) 窺視孔／窥视孔 (kuīshì kǒng), (a glass device) 門鏡／门镜 (ménjìng), 貓眼／猫眼 (zh) (māoyǎn), 窺視鏡／窥视镜 (kuīshìjìng) Czech: kukátko n, špehýrka (cs) f Finnish: ovisilmä (fi); kurkistusreikä, kurkistusaukko, kurkistusluukku French: judas (fr) m German: Spion (de) m, Türspion (de) m Hungarian: kémlelőnyílás (hu), kukucskáló Japanese: 覗き穴 (のぞきあな, nozoki-ana) Macedonian: шпионка f (špionka) Norman: ouïe d'l'us Norwegian: Bokmål: tittehull n Persian: چشمی‎ (fa) (češmi) Polish: wizjer (pl) m, judasz (pl) m Portuguese: olho mágico m, óculo (pt) m Romanian: vizor (ro) n Russian: глазо́к (ru) m (glazók), смотрово́е отве́рстие n (smotrovóje otvérstije), смотрова́я щель f (smotrovája ščelʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: зурка f, шпијунка f Roman: zurka (sh) f, špijunka (sh) f Slovak: priezor m Spanish: mirilla f Swedish: kikhål (sv) n Thai: ตาแมว (dtaa-mɛɛo) Turkish: gözetleme deliği (tr), kapı dürbünü Volapük: logedahog

Further reading

• “peephole”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “peephole”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “peephole”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “peephole” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.