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Glimpse vs Ogle - What's the difference?

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Glimpse is a related term of ogle.


As nouns the difference between glimpse and ogle

is that glimpse is a brief look, glance, or peek while ogle is an impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.

As verbs the difference between glimpse and ogle

is that glimpse is to see or view briefly or incompletely while ogle is (intransitive) to stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

glimpse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief look, glance, or peek.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *: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.
  • A sudden flash.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
  • A faint idea; an inkling.

    • Verb

    (glimps)
  • To see or view briefly or incompletely.
    • I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
  • To appear by glimpses.
    • (Drayton)

    Synonyms

    * perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of

    ogle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (Northern England)

    Verb

    (ogl)
  • (intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.
  • * Dryden
    • And ogling all their audience, ere they speak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.

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