ogle

See also: øgle, öğle, and oglē

English

Alternative forms

• oggle
• augle (Northern England)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch *ooghelen, oeghelen (“to ogle”), frequentative form of oogen (“to eye”); or from Middle Low German ogelen (“to look at, ogle”), frequentative of ogen, ougen (“to eye, see”), equivalent to og- +‎ -le. Compare German äugeln (“to ogle”). More at eye, -le.

Pronunciation

• (UK): enPR: ōʹgəl, IPA^(key): /ˈəʊɡəl/ or (nonstandard, perhaps by analogy with goggle) enPR: ŏgʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈɒɡəl/
• (US): enPR: ōʹgəl, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊɡəl/, /ˈɑɡəl/
• Rhymes: -ɒɡəl, -əʊɡəl

Verb

ogle (third-person singular simple present ogles, present participle ogling, simple past and past participle ogled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
   • Dryden

     And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.

Translations

to stare flirtatiously

• Dutch: lonken (nl), gluren (nl)
• Esperanto: rigardemi
• Finnish: tuijottaa (fi)
• French: reluquer (fr), mater (fr) (familiar)
• German: liebäugeln (de)
• Greek: κοζάρω (el) (kozáro), γλυκοκοιτάζω (el) (glykokoitázo)
• Hungarian: szemez (hu)

• Ido: oglar (io)
• Italian: guardare con desiderio, osservare con desiderio
• Maori: tiro mākutu
• Persian: چشم‌چرانی کردن‏‎ (čašm-čarâni kardan)
• Romanian: holba (ro)
• Russian: стро́ить гла́зки impf (stróitʹ glázki), коке́тничать (ru) impf (kokétničatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: caog

Noun

ogle (plural ogles)

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.
   • 1997, Gardiner, James, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

     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.

   • 2015 October 12, Lowe, Adam, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian^[1]:

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

Translations

an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare

• Finnish: tuijotus (fi)
• Ido: oglo (io)

• Persian: زل‏‎ (fa) (zol)
• Russian: коке́тливый взгляд m (kokétlivyj vzgljad)

Anagrams

• Goel, LEGO, Lego, Loge, goel, lego, loge

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Latvian

Ogle (1)

Akmeņogle (2)

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) oglis

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *anglis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ongʷl- (“coal”). Cognates include Lithuanian anglìs, Old Prussian anglis, Old Church Slavonic ѫгль (ǫglĭ), Russian у́голь (úgolʹ), Belarusian вуголь (vúgol’), Ukrainian вугіль (vúgil’), Bulgarian въгле (vǎ́gle), Czech uhel, Polish węgiel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ùoɡlɛ]

Noun

ogle f (5th declension)

1. charcoal (partially burnt organic materials, usually wood)

   aktīvā ogle, aktivētā ogle ― activated carbon

   melns kā ogle ― black as charcoal

   ogles zīmējumi ― charcoal drawings

   kvēlojošas ogles ― burning coals

2. (syn. akmeņogle) coal (mineral deposits, used as industrial fuel)

   ogļu atradnes ― coal deposits

   ogļu ieguve ― coal mining

   ogļu rūpniecība ― coal industry

Declension

Declension of ogle (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ogle	ogles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ogli	ogles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ogles	ogļu
dative (datīvs)	oglei	oglēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ogli	oglēm
locative (lokatīvs)	oglē	oglēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	ogle	ogles

Derived terms

• akmeņogle
• ogleklis