ogle

• oggle
• augle (Northern England)

Probably from

• Dutch, from Middle Dutch *ooghelen, oeghelen (“to ogle”), frequentative form of oogen (“to look at”), from oge (“eye”),
• or from Low German oegeln, frequentative of oegen (“to look at”), from Oog (“eye”).

Compare German äugeln (“to ogle”). More at eye, -le.

• enPR: ōʹgəl, (less common) enPR: ŏgʹəl
• (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /ˈəʊɡl̩/, (less common) /ˈɒɡl̩/
• (General American): IPA^(key): /ˈoʊɡl̩/, (less common) /ˈɑɡl̩/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡəl, -ɒɡəl

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.
   • 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: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.

• ogle-in

ogle (plural ogles)

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.
   • 1997, James Gardiner, 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, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian‎:

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

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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

• (dialectal forms) oglis

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *anˀglís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ùoɡlɛ]

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

• akmeņogle
• ogleklis

ógle

1. accusative plural of ogel