ogle

name

1. A surname.
2. A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1378).
3. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.

noun

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.

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. 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.”

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

verb

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.

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

   “And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.”

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