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.

   Hyponyms: leer (intransitive), eye-stalk, eyerape, eye-rape

   Near-synonyms: eye up, eyeball

   • 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.

   • 1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados:

     "Come and see!" and the old creature ogled Carrados with her beady eyes as though the situation constituted an excellent joke between them.

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)
• Māori: 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, vacilar (es)
• 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^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2026:

     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

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin oclus, from Latin oculus.

Noun

ogle m (plural ?)

1. (Fodom) eye

Alternative forms

• uedl (Gherdëina)
• edl (Badiot)
• eie (Fascian)
• ocio (Anpezan)

Latvian

Ogle (1)

Akmeņogle (2)

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) oglis

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *anˀglís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈùɔ̯ɡlɛ]

Noun

ògle f (5th declension)

1. charcoal (partially burnt organic materials, usually wood)

   aktīvā ogle, aktivētā ogle ― activated carbon

   melns kā ogle ― black as charcoal

   ogles zīmējumi ― charcoal drawings

   kvēlojošas ogles ― burning coals

2. (syn. akmeņogle) coal (mineral deposits, used as industrial fuel)

   ogļu atradnes ― coal deposits

   ogļu ieguve ― coal mining

   ogļu rūpniecība ― coal industry

Declension

Declension of ogle (5th)

	singular	plural
nominative	ogle	ogles
genitive	ogles	ogļu
dative	oglei	oglēm
accusative	ogli	ogles
instrumental	ogli	oglēm
locative	oglē	oglēs
vocative	ogle	ogles

Derived terms

• akmeņogle
• ogleklis

Slovene

Noun

ógle

1. accusative plural of ogel