ogle
/ˈəʊɡl̩/US/ˈoʊɡl̩/
ogle verb: to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
Verb
ogle (third-person singular simple present ogles, present participle ogling, simple past and past participle ogled)
- To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
- Near-synonyms: eye up, eyeball
- And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.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. […]...
Noun
ogle (plural ogles)
- An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
- An eye.
- 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.1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137
- Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian
Proper noun capitalized: Ogle
Ogle (plural Ogles)
- A surname.
- A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1378).
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.
ogle meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
ogle in Tamil
- கண்ணடி, கடைக்கணி, கடைக்கண்ணால் பார், காதல் பார்வை பார்
ogle in Urdu
- للچائی نظر ڈالنا, تاڑنا, ترچھی نظر مارنا
ogle in Bengali
- অশ্লীল, কামুক দৃষ্টিতে দেখা
ogle in Malayalam
- to stare flirtatiously
- വായ്നോക്കുക vāynōkkuka
- an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare
- വായ്നോട്ടം vāynōṭṭaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- ogle in Kannada
- ತೆವಲಿನಿಂದ ನೋಡು
- ogle in Persian
- چشمچرانی کردن čašm-čarâni kardan, زل zol
Examples of ogle in a sentence
- Ogles, an entrepreneur, will defeat state House Speaker Beth Harwell and retired Brig.
- A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle.
- Perched on its top, huddled together, three owlings were ogling them.
Synonyms of ogle
Forms of ogle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | ogles |
| present participle | ogling |
| past participle | ogled |
| past | ogled |
| alternative form | oggle |
| alternative Northern England | augle |
| Noun | |
| plural | ogles |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ogles |
Origin of ogle
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.
Words formed from ogle
Phrases with ogle
Words that rhyme with ogle
Questions about ogle
- What does ogle mean?
- Ogle means to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
- What is ogle in Tamil?
- Ogle in Tamil is கண்ணடி, கடைக்கணி, கடைக்கண்ணால் பார். See Ogle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ogle?
- Ogle can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ogle?
- Ogle is pronounced /ˈəʊɡl̩/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of ogle?
- The past tense of ogle is ogled.
Words near ogle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ogle (page history and authors); Ogle (page history and authors); ogle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ogle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ogle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ogle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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