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▪ I. ogle, n.1|ˈəʊg(ə)l|
[f. the vb. or cognate with it.]
1. An eye; usually pl. the eyes. Orig. Vagabonds' cant; in early 19th c. in Pugilistic slang, etc.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v. Ogling, The Gentry⁓mort has rum Ogles, that Lady has charming black Eyes. 1705E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1708) I. vi. ix, He rowl'd his Ogles with a Grace Becoming so a zealous Face. 1711― Quix. I. 348 Turning up his Ogles tow'rd The Shining Heavens, in a Passion. 1819Moore Tom Cribb's Mem. App. ii. 51 Round lugs and ogles flew the frequent fist. 1820Sporting Mag. VI. 80 The latter..got a small taste over his left ogle. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green ii. iv, That'll raise a tidy mouse on your ogle, my lad.
2. An amorous, languishing, or coquettish glance; an ocular invitation to advances.
1711Addison Spect. No. 46 ⁋8, I have..brought over with me a new flying Ogle fit for the Ring. 1775Davenant's Man's the Master v. 65 Her ogles dart this way. 1823Byron Juan vi. lx, If fond of a chance ogle at her glass, 'Twas like the fawn, which, in the lake displayed, Beholds her own shy, shadowy image pass. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. ii. (1876) 189 You see him..delivering a killing ogle along with his scented billet. 1882A. Edwardes Ballroom Repentance I. 20 Enduring alike her wrong notes and her ogles.
▪ II. † ogle, n.2 Her. Obs.
Pl. 5 oglys.
[Origin unknown: the sense is the same as that of ogress2.]
A representation of a cannon-ball as a bearing.
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. B iv b, Oglys be calde in armys gonestonys.
▪ III. ogle, v.|ˈəʊg(ə)l|
Also 8 augle, oagle.
[Appeared late in 17th c., as a cant word, app. from Du. or LG.: cf. LG. oegeln, freq. of oegen to look at (Bremisches Wbch. 1767), Ger. äugeln to ogle, to leer, freq. or dim. of augen to look about, to eye, f. auge eye. Cf. also early mod.Du. or Flem. oogheler, oegheler flatterer (Kilian); and for the sense the Du. oogen to direct or cast the eyes, in Hexham (1660) ‘to cast sheepes eyes upon one, or to aime or take a mark by the Eyes’, f. oog eye.]
1. intr. To cast amorous, coquettish, or insinuatingly familiar glances.
1682–87[see ogling vbl. n.]. c1685Roxb. Ball. (1885) V. 567 Wilt thou still sparkle in the Box, And ogle in the Ring? 1713Lady M. W. Montagu Lett., to Miss Wortley Nov. (1887) I. 83 He sighs and ogles so, that it would do your heart good to see him. 1719D'Urfey Pills I. 256 Here is one can Oagle finely. 1779F. Burney Diary Jan., I was watched the whole evening, but..the company behaved extremely well, for they only ogled! 1886Fenn Master of Cerem. iii, Her sister ogled and smiled, and smirked under her paint and diamonds.
b. trans. To turn or bring by ogling.
1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. iii, He would ogle you the outside of his eye inward, and the white upward. a1814Manœuvring, in New Brit. Theatre II. 119, I might ogle myself blind..before I should get a kind look from her.
2. trans. To eye with amorous, admiring, or insinuating glances; to ‘make eyes’ at.
1711Addison Spect. No. 8 ⁋7 As soon as the Minuet was over, we ogled one another through our Masques. 1715Lady M. W. Montagu Town Eclogues i, The prince is ogled; some the King pursue; But your Roxana only follows You. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxxiii, ‘Is that my Sally?’, croaked the dwarf, ogling the fair Miss Brass. 1844― Mart. Chuz. iv, Mr. Tigg..ogled the three Miss Chuzzlewits with the least admixture of banter in his admiration.
3. To keep one's eyes upon; to eye, to look at.
1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 150 There was a portly parson, whom I observed ogling several mouldy writers through an eye glass. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle (Farmer), She first ogled the superscription, and then the seal, very ominously. 1891Clark Russell My Shipmate Louise 67 He stood ogling the wreck through his binocular. |