ogle
/ˈoʊɡl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
noun
An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
noun
An eye.
name
A surname.
name
A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NZ1378).
name
An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: eye up, eyeball"
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈoʊɡl̩/
- British English: /ˈəʊɡl̩/