Ogle

/ˈəʊɡl̩/ name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
  2. 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."

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

    "And ogling all their audience, ere they speak."

  2. 2
    look at with amorous intentions wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1378).
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.

Synonyms

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amorous looksattendbedroom eyescast coquettish glancescome hither lookcome-hither look

Example

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"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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