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ogle

verb
/ˈəʊɡl̩/UK/ˈoʊɡl̩/US

Etymology

17th century. Probably from Low German ögeln (“to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”), from Middle Low German ö̂gelen, frequentative of Middle Low German ö̂gen, from Old Saxon ōgian, from Proto-West Germanic *augijan (“to show”). Alternatively from an equivalent Dutch *ogelen, but this seems unattested (only the simplex ogen). By surface analysis, eye + -le.

  1. derived from *augijan✻ — “to show”
  2. derived from ōgian
  3. derived from ö̂gen
  4. derived from ö̂gelen
  5. borrowed from ögeln — “to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”

Definitions

  1. To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

    • And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.
    • "Come and see!" and the old creature ogled Carrados with her beady eyes as though the situation constituted an excellent joke between them.

  2. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.

  3. An eye.

    • Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
    • Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A surname.

    2. A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1378).

    3. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

ogle-in, ogle fake, ogle fake riah, ogle fakes, ogle riah fake

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA