OGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ogle mean? 

• OGLE (verb)
  The verb OGLE has 1 sense:

1. look at with amorous intentions

  Familiarity information: OGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ogle    ... he / she / it ogles   
Past simple: ogled   
Past participle: ogled   
-ing form: ogling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look at with amorous intentions

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "ogle" is one way to...):

look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot ogle Sue

Derivation:

ogler (a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person)

 Context examples 

This lady—dressed in an off-hand, easy style; bringing her nose and her forefinger together, with the difficulty I have described; standing with her head necessarily on one side, and, with one of her sharp eyes shut up, making an uncommonly knowing face—after ogling Steerforth for a few moments, broke into a torrent of words.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was still looking at the doorway, thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making her appearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there came waddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursy dwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face, a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, to enable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub nose, as she ogled Steerforth, she was obliged to meet the finger half-way, and lay her nose against it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Though she was just as sharp that day as on the day before, and was in and out about the donkeys just as often, and was thrown into a tremendous state of indignation, when a young man, going by, ogled Janet at a window (which was one of the gravest misdemeanours that could be committed against my aunt's dignity), she seemed to me to command more of my respect, if not less of my fear.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)