ogle

See also: Ogle, oglē, ógle, øgle, and öğle

English

Alternative forms

• oggle
• augle (Northern England)

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ōʹgəl, (less common) enPR: ŏgʹəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊɡl̩/, (less common) /ˈɒɡl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊɡl̩/, (less common) /ˈɑɡl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡəl, -ɒɡəl

Verb

ogle (third-person singular simple present ogles, present participle ogling, simple past and past participle ogled)

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

   Synonym: leer

   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.

Derived terms

• ogglesome
• ogle-in
• ogler
• oglesome
• unogled

Translations

to stare flirtatiously

Bulgarian: гледам влюбено (gledam vljubeno) Chinese: Cantonese: 流眄 (lau4 min5) Mandarin: 流眄 (zh) (liúmiǎn) Dutch: lonken (nl), gluren (nl) Esperanto: rigardemi Finnish: tuijottaa (fi) French: mater (fr) (familiar), reluquer (fr), (familiar) German: äugeln (de), liebäugeln (de) Greek: κοζάρω (el) (kozáro), γλυκοκοιτάζω (el) (glykokoitázo) Hungarian: szemez (hu) Ido: oglar (io) Italian: guardare con desiderio, osservare con desiderio Japanese: 覗く (ja) (nozoku) Malayalam: വായ്നോക്കുക (vāynōkkuka) Maori: tiro mākutu Persian: چشم‌چرانی کردن (čašm-čarâni kardan) Romanian: holba (ro) Russian: стро́ить гла́зки (ru) impf (stróitʹ glázki), коке́тничать (ru) impf (kokétničatʹ) Scottish Gaelic: caog Serbo-Croatian: šacovati (sh) Spanish: lujuriar (es), jamear con los ojos Turkish: göz süzmek (tr), baygın baygın bakmak (tr) (often reduplicated)

Noun

ogle (plural ogles)

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.
   • 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

     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.

   • 2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎:

     Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.

Derived terms

• ogle fake
• ogle fake riah
• ogle fakes
• ogle-in
• ogle riah fake

Translations

an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare

Finnish: tuijotus (fi) Ido: oglo (io) Malayalam: വായ്നോട്ടം (ml) (vāynōṭṭaṁ) Persian: زل (fa) (zol) Russian: коке́тливый взгляд m (kokétlivyj vzgljad)

See also

• leer

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Ogle”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• lego, loge, Goel, gole, Oleg, Lego, goel, Loge, LEGO