English
ogle
Ogle may come from Low German ögeln ‘to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes’.
- Low Germanmodernögeln‘to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1693ogle
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Low Germanmodernögeln‘to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1693ogle
Earliest quotation: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, [The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr: “And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- ‘to see’
optics, anthropology, oculus, ocular, inoculation, synoptic, awk, inoculate, monocle, anthropoid, doily, 38 more
through Proto-Germanic *augô ‘eye’
Today it means
verb To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Low German ögeln / ogle