ogle

present singular third person ogles · participle present ogling · participle past ogled · past ogled · alternative oggle · alternative Northern England augle

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

   Near-synonyms: eye up, eyeball

   2 more examples

   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. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC

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

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

   Synonyms: eye up, eyeball

plural ogles · alternative oggle · alternative Northern England augle

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. Polariplural normallyAn eye.

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

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

   1 more example

   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

plural Ogles

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