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curtain-twitcher

curtain-twitcher is the alternative spelling of curtain twitcher.

Meaning of curtain twitcher

Noun

curtain twitcher (plural curtain twitchers)

  1. (UK, slang) A nosy person who watches their neighbours, typically from a curtained window.
    • […]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

Forms of curtain-twitcher

pluralcurtain-twitchers

Questions about curtain-twitcher

What is curtain-twitcher the alternative spelling of?
Curtain-twitcher is the alternative spelling of curtain twitcher.

Words near curtain-twitcher in the dictionary

  1. curtain-raise
  2. curtain-raiser
  3. curtain-raisers
  4. curtain-sider
  5. curtain-siders
  6. curtain-twitcher
  7. curtain-twitchers
  8. curtained
  9. curtained off
  10. curtainfall
  11. curtainfic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtain-twitcher (page history and authors); curtain twitcher (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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