MEANING
To look at someone or something with conspicuous, often intrusive desire.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- ogle a person
- ogle a display
On the page
He caught the visitor ogling the antique instruments.
Word forms
- Base
- ogle
- Past tense
- ogled
- Past participle
- ogled
- Present participle
- ogling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- ogle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are ogling
- Present perfect
- have/has ogled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been ogling
- Past
- ogled
- Past continuous
- was/were ogling
- Past perfect
- had ogled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been ogling
- Future
- will ogle
- Future continuous
- will be ogling
- Future perfect
- will have ogled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been ogling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: ogle; ogles; ogled; ogled; ogling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: ogles.
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