ogle

Etymology

Probably from * Dutch, from Middle Dutch *ooghelen, oeghelen (“to ogle”), frequentative form of oogen (“to look at”), from oge (“eye”), * or from Low German oegeln, frequentative of oegen (“to look at”), from Oog (“eye”). Compare German äugeln (“to ogle”). More at eye, -le.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

noun

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.
   Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel. 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137
   Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law. 2015-10-12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian