눈팅 (nunting)
NOON-tingnoun, verbInformalOnline
A Korean slang term. Browse all Korean slang.
What it means
Lurking: reading a forum or a group chat regularly without ever posting.
Literally: Eye-ing.
Examples with translations
그 카페는 눈팅만 해.
I only lurk on that forum.
단톡방에서 눈팅 중이야.
I'm just reading the group chat, not joining in.
Where it comes from
눈 ('eye') plus the English -ing ending, borrowed as a productive Korean suffix. 채팅 and 미팅 came the same way.
Other forms
- Romanised as:
- nunting