different between glimpse vs ogle

English

Alternative forms

• glinse
• glimse (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier glimse, from Middle English glimsen (“to glisten, be dazzling, glance with the eyes”), akin to Middle High German glimsen (“to glow, smoulder”), Middle High German glinsen (“to shine, glimmer”), Middle Dutch glinsen and Middle Low German glinsen, glintzen, glinzen (“to shine, shimmer”), Dutch glinsteren (“to glitter, sparkle, shimmer, glint, glance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?mps/
• Rhymes: -?mps

Noun

glimpse (plural glimpses)

1. A brief look, glance, or peek.
   • 1798, Samuel Rogers, An Epistle to a Friend

     Here hid by shrub-wood, there by glimpses seen.

   • Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

2. A sudden flash.
3. A faint idea; an inkling.

Translations

Verb

glimpse (third-person singular simple present glimpses, present participle glimpsing, simple past and past participle glimpsed)

1. (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.

   I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.

2. (intransitive) To appear by glimpses.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

Synonyms

• perceive, notice, detect, espy, spot, catch sight of

Translations

Anagrams

• megilps

English

Alternative forms

• oggle
• augle (Northern England)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK): enPR: ??g?l, IPA^(key): /?????l/ or (nonstandard, perhaps by analogy with goggle) enPR: ?g??l, IPA^(key): /????l/
• (US): enPR: ??g?l, IPA^(key): /?o???l/, /????l/
• Rhymes: -????l, -???l

Verb

ogle (third-person singular simple present ogles, present participle ogling, simple past and past participle ogled)

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

Translations

Noun

ogle (plural ogles)

1. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.
2. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Goel, LEGO, Lego, Loge, goel, lego, loge

Latvian

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) oglis

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *an?glís, from Proto-Indo-European *h?óng?l? (“coal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ùo?l?]

Noun

ogle f (5th declension)

1. charcoal (partially burnt organic materials, usually wood)

2. (syn. akme?ogle) coal (mineral deposits, used as industrial fuel)

Declension

Derived terms

• akme?ogle
• ogleklis

References

Slovene

Noun

ógle

1. accusative plural of ogel