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  1. transitive verb To stare at.
  2. transitive verb To stare at impertinently, flirtatiously, or amorously.
  3. intransitive verb To stare in an impertinent, flirtatious, or amorous manner.
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  • The ladies indeed may ogle, and the gentlemen sigh; but an embargo is laid on any closer commerce. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • "Now we shall have to give him something to ogle," Cathryn said distastefully. —  Faun ; Games
  • There are three sackified posters to ogle, along with a printer-friendly, high-resolution version of a replacement box art for Metal Gear Solid 4. —  Kotaku
  • Go Daddy has a new Super Bowl video ogle-off that ought to light up the Go Daddy site from now through February. —  On Pit Row
  • "When these systems were first introduced in the late 1980's, some of the policemen, who monitored the cameras, used them to ogle or follow young women," said Yohnka.
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  1. Perhaps from Low German oghelen, oegeln, frequentative of oegen, to eye, from oghe, oge, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. augle; from Middle Dutch *ooghelen, oeghelen (in deriv. oogheler, oegheler = Middle Low German ogelen, Low German oegeln = German äugeln), eye, ogle, freq. of Dutch oogen = Middle Low German ogen, ougen, Low German oegen, eye, ogle, = English eye: see eye, v.
  2. from ogle, v.
  3. Also yogle; from Icelandic ugla, an owl: see owl.
 

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