oglesome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ogle +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

oglesome (comparative more oglesome, superlative most oglesome)

  1. (rare) Alternative form of ogglesome
    • 1888, William Beatty-Kingston, A Wanderer's Notes - Volume 2:
      These apparitions were, after all, but shadows cast by the stout islanders told off by Colonel Maxse to administer the Bengal fire that was the factor chiefly employed in producing these oglesome eye-delusions; [...]
    • 2004, New York - Volume 37:
      No wonder his oglesome partner in highspeed detection, Susan Branca (Vera Farmiga), keeps looking at him as if he were either an alien or a Mulder.
    • 2010, Tyne O'Connell, Googling Arthur:
      In Real Life, it helps if you can do flashy shuffles and flutter your chips but then again it helps if your breasts are oglesome and your hair behaves.