| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| ogle |
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| SYLLABICATION: | o·gle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |    g l, ôgl |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: o·gled, o·gling, o·gles
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To stare at. 2. To stare at impertinently, flirtatiously, or amorously. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To stare in an impertinent, flirtatious, or amorous manner. | | NOUN: | An impertinent, flirtatious, or amorous stare. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Perhaps from Low German oghelen, oegeln, frequentative of oegen, to eye, from oghe, oge, eye. See okw- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ogler —NOUN
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