Verb He sat at the bar, ogling several women. He ogled the new cars on the lot. I was ogling the dessert menu before my meal even arrived.
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Aside from many works of art to ogle at, the hotel also offers an Arctic King Crab fishing excursion, a tour of the Northern Lights via huskies, and the opportunity to pet real-life reindeer. Isis Briones, House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2022 Soon, the Long Island Sound broadened, and the plane veered away from the shoreline, offering little for a real-estate voyeur to ogle. Ben Mcgrath, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022 There, amid leafy branches, two adolescent boys ogle her. Lesley Finn, Longreads, 7 July 2022 New Bond Street galleries can also ogle 50 glittering tiaras, on loan from aristocratic families across Europe. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022 Before the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of visitors traveled to Hokkaido from the rest of Asia, Europe and the United States to ogle and photograph the birds.New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022 There was certainly plenty to ogle: the $63,000 Jim Zivic hammock, the $45,000 Lindsey Adelman chandelier, the mysteriously proportioned pink onyx bar that the movers seem to have abandoned on one side of the living room.Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022 While driving around to ogle Joshua Tree’s iconic rock formations is a noble pursuit in itself, this playful landscape is best experienced on foot. Shawnté Salabert, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2019 Again, hoards of people, including photographers, ogle the car from behind the concrete pit wall. Jim Clash, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
Noun
Maybe not the happiest scene, but the gallery itself is always filled with ogle-worthy art, and is free to enter at 508 W. 26th St, Tuesday - Sunday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021 Find unique gifts and ogle holiday decorations festooning Pearl, the riverside stay-play-dine district on the site of the former Pearl Brewery founded in 1883. Robin Soslow, Chron, 17 Nov. 2021 Princess Leia, the obvious choice, was most recognizable in an ogle-baiting metal bikini.Wired, 18 Nov. 2019 The ogle-worthy fashion is aplenty, and yet the beauty equation takes a simpler route: faces stripped back and completely free of makeup; hair cut pixie-short, swept back into a bun, or hanging long and loose. Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 2 May 2018 That shifting landscape partly explains the decision on the part of the filmmakers and the video-game designers to cut down on the ogle factor. Justin Chang, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018 Buy, sell, and trade kicks at this bonkers event at the Anaheim Convention Center, where more than 250 vendors and over 100,000 pairs of sneaks will be on ogle-able. Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 July 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb and Noun
probably from Low German oegeln, from oog eye; akin to Old High German ouga eye — more at eye