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ogle

[ oh-guhl ]

verb (used with object)

, o·gled, o·gling.
  1. to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
  2. to eye; look or stare at.


verb (used without object)

, o·gled, o·gling.
  1. to look amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
  2. to look or stare.

noun

  1. an amorous, flirtatious, or impertinent glance or stare.

ogle

/ ˈəʊɡəl /

verb

  1. to look at (someone) amorously or lustfully
  2. tr to stare or gape at


noun

  1. a flirtatious or lewd look

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Derived Forms

  • ˈogler, noun

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Other Words From

  • ogler noun
  • un·ogled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ogle1

1670–80; apparently < Dutch, frequentative ( -le ) of oogen to make eyes at, derivative of oog eye (compare Low German oegeln, German äugeln )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ogle1

C17: probably from Low German oegeln, from oegen to look at

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Example Sentences

Kids, often more tech savvy than their parents, ogle XXX-rated photos and videos before they are legally old enough to do so.

Shortly before his death in 1882, Charles Darwin received a letter from a physician and classicist named William Ogle.

“I had not the most remote notion of what a wonderful man he was,” Darwin wrote of Aristotle in his reply to Ogle.

"Girl Most Likley is a case of good actors in serious need of worthwhile material, " said Connie Ogle at The Miami Herald.

When powerful men stray, the press continues to ogle, and shame, the women they do it with, writes Allison Yarrow.

I already began to ogle the gals in the carridges, and to feel that longing for fashionabl life which I've had ever since.

Abel Bush and Peter Ogle both lived there, and had families, among whom their godson would pass his time pleasantly enough.

As Paul was then so very busy, they promised to return at dinner time, and went on to see Peter Ogle.

Sir Chaloner Ogle, afterward distinguished in the Cartagena expedition, and admiral of the fleet.

The Nightingale was whispering his secret to the Rose,14 and that, full-blown by the zephyr of the dawn, would ogle him in return.

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