mirón — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bystander noun A person who is present at an event but does not take part in it.
- flaneur noun One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. One who walks to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.
- voyeur noun A person who gets sexual gratification from secretly watching others undress or engage in intimate acts.
Senses
mirón is used for these senses in English:
- bystander A person who, although present at some event, does not take part in it; an observer, witness, or spectator.
- flaneur One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. One who walks to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.
- lurker One who lurks.
- peeping tom A person who watches another without the other's permission and usually without the other's knowledge, especially for the purpose of deriving sexual pleasure from the sight of the other.
- rubberneck Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.
- rubbernecker (originally, US) A person who rubbernecks; someone who cranes their neck as though it were made of rubber to see something (such as a tourist attraction) or to watch an event (such as an accident); a rubberneck.
- voyeur A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism.
flaneur — full definition
- noun One who wanders aimlessly, who roams, who travels at a lounging pace. One who walks to observe and enjoy rather than to get somewhere.
- noun An idler, a loafer.