different between peek vs ogle

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?k, IPA^(key): /pi?k/

  Homophones: peak, peke, pique

• Rhymes: -i?k

Alternative forms

• peak, peke (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English *peken, piken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of peep and keek.

Verb

peek (third-person singular simple present peeks, present participle peeking, simple past and past participle peeked)

1. (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
2. (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
3. (computing, transitive) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
   • 2006, Gary Willoughby, PureBasic: A Beginner's Guide to Computer Programming (page 279)

     We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.

Translations

Related terms

• peekable
• sneak peek

Etymology 2

Noun

peek

1. Misspelling of pique.

Anagrams

• Ekpe, Keep, Peke, keep, kepe, peke

Basque

Noun

peek

1. ergative plural of pe

Hlai

Etymology

From Proto-Hlai *p?a?k (“high”), from Pre-Hlai *pa?k (Norquest, 2015).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hlai) IPA^(key): /p?e?k?/

Adjective

peek

1. high

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