ogle
nounEtymology 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
Polari, Plural normally 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:
- Derived terms
- ogle fake, ogle fake riah, ogle fakes, ogle-in, ogle riah fake
- Related terms
- leer