1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1819. Moore, Tom Cribb's Memorial, 51. Round lugs and ogles flew the frequent fist.
1821. Haggart, Life Glossary, 172. s.v. Oglers.
1827. Egan, Anec. Turf, 67. Never again would he put the ogles of the ring in mourning.
1839. Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard, i. ii. It does sparkle almost as brightly as your ogles.
1846. Punch's Almanac, November. Remarks. Fiery links gleam through the unfiltered air, and in their transit sputter hot pitch on the fog-bound traveller! Let Snodgrass beware! An Adverse torch threatens his dexter ogle.
1853. Bradley, ('Cuthbert Bede'), Verdant Green. That'll raise a tidy mouse on your ogle, my lad.
1853. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, vi. A little brown, bright-eyed creature, whose ogles had made the greatest impression upon all the world.
2 (common).—An ocular invitation or consent, side glance, or amorous look. Whence ogling = an amorous look.
1704. Cibber, The Careless Husband, iii. 1. Nay, nay, none of your parting ogles. Will you go?
1710. Congreve, Song to Celia. Those oglings that tell you my passion.
d.1719. Addison, The Fortune Hunter. When an heiress sees a man throwing particular graces into his ogle . . . she ought to look to herself.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, &c., i. 43. To oagle there a Tory tall, or a little Whig, Defying the Pretender.
1751. Fielding. Amelia, xi. iii. He immediately laid siege in form, setting himself down in a lodging directly opposite to her, from whence the battery of ogles began to play the very next morning.
1818. Byron, Beppo, xvi. For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs.
c.1820. Maher, Death of Socrates. With the mots their ogles throwing.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 37. They ain't in it with ogles and antics and 'ints.
Verb. (common).—1. To look amorously; to make sheep's eyes (q.v.).—B. E. (c. 1696).
1712. Pope, Rape of the Lock, v. 23. To patch, to ogle, may become a saint.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, &c., ii. 97. When Tiptoes are in fashion, and Lovers will jump and play, Then he too takes occasion to leer and ogle me.
1775. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. I will make you ogle her all day, and sit up all night, to write sonnets on her beauty.
d.1800. Cowper, Pairing Time Anticipated. Dick heard, and tweedling, ogling, bridling.
1834. Dowling, Othello Travestie, i. 3. She first began To throw sheep's eyes, and ogle at the man.
2. (colloquial).—To examine; to consider.
1836. Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log. I perceived that she first ogled the superscription, and then the seal, very ominously.
3. (thieves').—To look.
1821. Haggart, Life, 62. Seeing a cove ogling the yelpers.
1842. Egan, Captain Macheath, 'The By-blow of the Jug.' Jack had a sharp-looking eye to ogle, And soon he began to nap the fogle.
Ogler, subs. (old).—1. See Ogle,
subs., sense 1.
2. (common).—One who ogles (q.v.).
1702. Steele, Grief-a-la-Mode, iii. 1. Oh! that Kiggle, a pert ogler.
1710. Tatler, 145. A certain sect of professed enemies to the repose of the fair sex, called oglers.
Oh. See after you; dummy;
Jupiter; Moses; my; swallow.
Oil, subs. (various).—1. Used in
humorous or sarcastic combination:
e.g., Oil of Angels = a
gift or bribe (in allusion to the
coin); oil of barley = beer;
oil of baston (birch, glad-
