Ogle
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
- 2 An eye. Polari, plural-normally
"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."
- 1 To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. intransitive, transitive
"And ogling all their audience, ere they speak."
- 2 look at with amorous intentions wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1378).
- 3 An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.
Example
More examples"And ogling all their audience, ere they speak."
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.
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